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Read MoreExtremely Precise Radial Velocities Workshop
Penn State hosted the Third Extremely Precise Radial Velocities workshop August 14-17, 2017. For more details, see the meeting website.
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Read MoreUpgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dedicated
CEHW Professor Suvrath Mahadevan spoke on “Songs of Distant Earths” at the dedication for the freshly upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET). He described the opportunities created by the Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HPF), an infrared spectrograph that his team is building for HET. Read more from the McDonald Observatory press...
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Read MoreIntroducing CyberLAMP, the Cyber-Laboratory for Astronomy, Materials, and Physics
National Science Foundation funds supercomputer cluster at Penn State February 21, 2017 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State Cyber-Laboratory for Astronomy, Materials, and Physics (CyberLAMP) is acquiring a high-performance computer cluster that will facilitate interdisciplinary research and training in cyberscience and is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The hybrid computer...
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Read MorePandExo: Online Tool for Simulating JWST & HST Observations of Transiting Exoplanets
We are happy to announce the avaliability of PandExo, an online tool and python package for simulating observations of transiting exoplanets with a wide variety of instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope or the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope. PandExo uses throughput calculations from STScI’s Exposure Time Calculator, Pandeia. To learn more about the added features in PandExo, visit the PandExo...
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Read MoreA Flip-Flopping Climate Could Explain Mars’s Watery Past
A new hypothesis might reconcile two opposing theories that have tried to explain Mars’s mysterious history for more than 40 years. This study was led by Penn State graduate student, Natasha Batalha, working in collaboration Professor Jim Kastings and two CEHW alumni, Ravi Kumar Kopparapu and Jacob Haqq-Misra. Read more in the Earth and Science News story or the preprint on arxiv. Image Credit:...
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Read MoreA compact system of super-Earths & mini-Neptunes
Incoming Penn State graduate student, Mariah MacDonald, is first-author of a new study of the Kepler-80 planetary system. Read more at Astronomy magazine, Centauri Dreams, or the paper recently accepted to the Astrophysical...
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Read MoreFour synchronized planets reveal clues to how planets form
The search for planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy has revealed an extraordinary family of planets whose orbits are so carefully timed that they provide long-term stability for their planetary system. A paper describing the formation of this planetary system by a research team that includes a Penn State University astrophysicist will be published in the journal Nature on May 11, 2016. “The...
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Read MoreCEHW-led Team Selected to Build Next-Generation Exoplanet-Hunting Spectrograph
The CEHW instrument team added a new planet-finding spectrograph to its portfolio today, as NASA announced they have selected the Penn State-led team to build an Extreme Precision Doppler Spectrograph to provide next-generation exoplanet observational capabilities to the entire astronomical community. The spectrograph will be deployed in 2019 on the 3.5-meter WIYN Telescope at Kitt Peak National...
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Shredding Exoplanets, And The Mysteries They May Unravel
CEHW Prof. Jason Wright’s research was featured in ManyWorlds, a blog...
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Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) Gets an Upgrade
Read more about the HET upgrade in the press release. Image...
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A disintegrating minor planet transiting a white dwarf
Astronomers have discovered evidence for a rocky planet being destroyed and...
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A star so fascinating…
Most of the time scientists labor in obscurity. But sometimes a science...
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NASA picks Penn State-led team to Advance Concept for a Precision Planet Hunting Instrument
On a rugged Arizona mountaintop, astronomers will soon switch on a new,...
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The mass of the Mars-sized exoplanet, Kepler-138b
A First: Exoplanet smaller than Earth gets its size and mass measured A team...
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Videos from Emerging Researchers in Exoplanet Science Symposium are online
You can now watch videos of most oral presentations from the 2015 Emerging...
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Early Career Scientists Gather at Penn State for Symposium on Exoplanet Science
The Penn State Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds is bringing together...
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