A journey of exoplanet discovery begins as Penn State’s NEID spectrometer starts its scientific mission
Suvrath Mahadevan and Sam Sholtis The NEID spectrometer, a new tool for the discovery of planets outside of our solar system, has now...
Read MorePenn State led NEID team receives NASA Group Achievement Award
The NEID instrument team, led by Penn State Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Suvrath Mahadevan, was recognized by NASA with the...
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Penn State built an Extreme Precision Doppler Spectrograph to provide next-generation exoplanet observational capabilities to the entire...
Read MoreHPF
The Habitable Zone Planet Finder, or HPF, was installed on the 10-meter Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas. It is an...
Read MoreBreakthrough Listen
Breakthrough Listen is a $100 million, 10-year initiative centered at UC Berkeley to find technosignatures, i.e. signs of technological...
Read MoreCalifornia Planet Survey
Links California Planet Survey Faculty Contacts Jason Wright Eric Ford ...
Read MoreMINERVA
Penn State is a partner in the MINERVA observatory, which is currently under construction on Palomar Mountain. It will consist...
Read MoreKepler/K2 & TESS Missions
Links Kepler and K2 Mission Homepage TESS Mission Homepage Faculty Contacts Eric Ford Eric Feigelson Suvrath Mahadevan Jason...
Read MoreNexus for Exoplanet System Science
The Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) is a NASA research coordination network dedicated to the study of planetary habitability....
Read MoreSloan Digital Sky Survey–IV
Penn State is an institutional partner in a major new research effort to investigate the structure of our galaxy, the evolution of nearby...
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