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Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation

Posted on Nov 30, 2023 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Planet-forming & Debris Disks, Press Coverage, Research, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

Congrats to former CEHW graduate student, Dr. Gudmundur Stefansson, and the rest of the team on their recent paper in Science that reports...

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Earth-like planets could form even in the harshest environments

Posted on Nov 30, 2023 in Featured, Planet-forming & Debris Disks, Press Coverage, Research, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

CEHW Professor Eric Feigelson is a member of the XUE (eXtreme UV environments) collaboration that found potentially planets with water...

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Many exoplanets have nearly circular orbits

Posted on Nov 2, 2023 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Orbital Dynamics, Press Coverage, Statistical Methodology & Data Analysis | 0 comments

New analysis of observational data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope catalogs planetary properties; informs climate of planets Most...

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A journey of exoplanet discovery begins as Penn State’s NEID spectrometer starts its scientific mission

Posted on Aug 20, 2021 in Collaborations, Facilities & Instruments, Instrumentation, News, Press Coverage, Research | 0 comments

Suvrath Mahadevan and Sam Sholtis The NEID spectrometer, a new tool for the discovery of planets outside of our solar system, has now...

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A very stealthy alias: the impostor planet of Barnard’s star

Posted on May 25, 2021 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, News, Press Coverage, Publications, Research | 0 comments

Introduction One of the signature targets of HPF’s search for nearby exoplanets is Barnard’s star, the second-closest star...

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NASA’s Newest Planet Tracker Finds a Sky-high Perch

Posted on Jan 12, 2020 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Instrumentation, Press Coverage | 0 comments

A new instrument funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation called NEID (pronounced “NOO-id”; sounds like...

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NEID Spectrograph Sees First Light

Posted on Jan 10, 2020 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Instrumentation, News, Press Coverage | 0 comments

The exoplanet-hunting instrument NEID, designed and built at Penn State, has passed an important milestone on the road to discovering...

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Intelligent Ways to Search for Extraterrestrials

Posted on Oct 3, 2019 in Press Coverage | 0 comments

A story in the New Yorker highlights CHEW Professor Jason Wright’s contributions to the Search for...

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CEHW Professor Wright honored with 2019 Drake Award

Posted on Mar 27, 2019 in Awards & Honors, Press Coverage | 0 comments

CEHW Professor Jason Wright has been named the recipient of the 2019 Drake Award by the SETI Institute. Read full story at Penn State...

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Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence (PSETI) Center

Posted on Mar 1, 2019 in Announcements, Life Beyond Earth & Astrobiology, Press Coverage | 0 comments

A new Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence (PSETI) Center that will compliment the Center for Exoplanets & Habitable Worlds was...

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