Welcome to Ian Czekala
CEHW welcomes its newest faculty member, Dr. Ian Czekala. Ian’s current research focuses on sub-mm interferometry of protoplanetary...
Read MoreCEHW Alumna Arpita Roy named NASA Sagan Fellow
Congratulations to recent CEHW graduate student, Dr. Arpita Roy who was named a 2020 Sagan Fellow based on her proposal “Of Worlds...
Read MoreNew type of pulsating star discovered
CEHW postdoc Zhao Guo’s research recently appeared in Nature Astronomy and a ECoS press release. Image Caption: A new type of...
Read MoreSub-Neptune sized planet validated with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an...
Read MoreLooking for aliens who might be looking for us
Data from a massive search for cosmic radio emission released Feb 14. by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative—the most comprehensive survey...
Read MoreNASA’s Newest Planet Tracker Finds a Sky-high Perch
A new instrument funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation called NEID (pronounced “NOO-id”; sounds like...
Read MoreNEID Spectrograph Sees First Light
The exoplanet-hunting instrument NEID, designed and built at Penn State, has passed an important milestone on the road to discovering...
Read MoreDidier Queloz Talk on the Hunt for an Earth Twin and the Pathway for the Origin of Life
Professor Didier Queloz (University of Cambridge and University of Geneva) gave an inspiring talk to the Penn State Center for Exoplanets...
Read MoreIntelligent Ways to Search for Extraterrestrials
A story in the New Yorker highlights CHEW Professor Jason Wright’s contributions to the Search for...
Read MoreNEID Passes its NASA Pre-Ship Review
The NEID spectrometer passed its NASA pre-ship review. The outcome of this review, held September 17 and 18th at Penn State, was unanimous...
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