Astronomers discover sunscreen snow falling on hot exoplanet
Astronomers at Penn State have used the Hubble Space Telescope to find a blistering-hot giant planet outside our solar system where the...
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Extremely Precise Radial Velocities Workshop
Penn State hosted the Third Extremely Precise Radial Velocities workshop August 14-17, 2017. For more details, see the meeting...
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New planet found to be hotter than most stars
A newly discovered Jupiter-like world is so hot that even its nights are like the flame of a welding torch. The gas giant has a “year”...
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Upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dedicated
CEHW Professor Suvrath Mahadevan spoke on “Songs of Distant Earths” at the dedication for the freshly upgraded Hobby-Eberly...
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Introducing 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...
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PandExo: 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...
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A 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....
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A 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...
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Four 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...
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CEHW-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...
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