Nearby star could help explain why our sun didn’t have sunspots for 70 years
CEHW undergrad alumna Anna Baum and Prof. Jason Wright identified a nearby star whose sunspot cycles appear to have stopped. Read more in...
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Target Prioritization for the NEID Earth Twin Survey
The NEID Earth Twin Survey The NEID spectrograph, designed and built by a team led by CEHW Professor Suvrath Mahadevan, was installed at...
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Controversial Clues of Two ‘Goldilocks Planets’ That Might Support Life are Proven False
Read more in the Penn State press release. And listen to Paul Robertson on Big Picture Science from the SETI...
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Hungry Red Giant: First evidence discovered of a planet’s destruction by its star.
An aging star polluted with lithium. A massive planet with a highly elliptical orbit. To an international team of astronomers, these add...
Read MoreNearby stars may aid in studies of Sun, search for Earth-like planets
A loose group of stars that has been known for more than 180 years but never before studied in detail has been revealed to be an important...
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Mysterious planet-like object reveals its surprising identity
A mysterious planet-like object orbiting a not-quite-starlike “brown dwarf” is the most recent enigma discovered by...
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