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The Center for Exoplanets & Habitable Worlds seeks to discover planets beyond our solar system, to characterize planetary systems and their host stars, and to understand the implications of the abundance of potentially habitable planets for the possibility of life beyond Earth and the origins of our own solar system.   —   Learn More

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Jiayin Dong honored with 2022 Penn State Alumni Dissertation Award

Posted on Mar 28, 2022 in Awards & Honors, News | 0 comments

Graduate student Jiayin Dong is a 2022 recipient of the Alumni Association...

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​​Nearby star could help explain why our sun didn’t have sunspots for 70 years

Posted on Mar 23, 2022 in Featured, Our Solar System, Star Properties | 0 comments

CEHW undergrad alumna Anna Baum and Prof. Jason Wright identified a nearby...

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Belatedly Habitable Planets

Posted on Oct 29, 2021 in Life Beyond Earth & Astrobiology, News | 0 comments

CEHW Graduate student Noah Tuchow and CEHW Professor Jason Wright introduce ...

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Newly discovered gas giant moving closer to its star

Posted on Oct 13, 2021 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Orbital Dynamics, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

A newly discovered gas giant planet with an elliptical, comet-like orbit is...

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Dr. Gudmundur Stefansson wins Trumpler Award for Outstanding PhD Dissertation

Posted on Aug 25, 2021 in Awards & Honors, News | 0 comments

THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2020 ROBERT J. TRUMPLER AWARD (PRESENTED IN 2021) IS DR....

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CEHW Professor Rebekah Dawson honored with Warner Prize for Astronomy

Posted on Feb 25, 2021 in Awards & Honors, News | 0 comments

Rebekah Dawson, Shaffer Career Development Professor in Science at Penn State,...

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