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Student-planned NuSTAR observation reveals hidden light shows on the Sun

March 16, 2023
Students at the School played a key role in planning a NuSTAR solar observation which could help shed light on one of the Sun’s biggest mysteries. UMN physics grad students Marianne Peterson and Reed
Patrick Kelly

Kelly Receives Borja Award

February 21, 2023
Assistant Professor Patrick Kelly of the School of Physics and Astronomy has received the Guillermo E. Borja Award from the College of Science and Engineering.
Radio image in purple of SAURON, a mysterious ring of emission almost a million light years across.  At its center is a giant elliptical galaxy, seen here in a picture from the Dark Energy Survey, at a distance of a billion light years from Earth.

Computer Picks a Mysterious Radio Object

January 11, 2023
A team co-led by MIfA Professor Emeritus Lawrence Rudnick tapped a computer algorithm to search for unusual objects in the radio sky. One of its choices is this mysterious object, given the moniker

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Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Leroy, K.S. Long