by Eric Ford | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured, Our Solar System, Star Properties
CEHW undergrad alumna Anna Baum and Prof. Jason Wright identified a nearby star whose sunspot cycles appear to have stopped. Read more in the Penn State press release.
by Arvind Gupta | Feb 12, 2021 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Publications, Research, Star Properties
The NEID Earth Twin Survey The NEID spectrograph, designed and built by a team led by CEHW Professor Suvrath Mahadevan, was installed at Kitt Peak National Observatory in late 2019 and will soon be fully commissioned for science observations. Over the next few years,...
by Eric Ford | Jul 3, 2014 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Life Beyond Earth & Astrobiology, Research, Star Properties
Read more in the Penn State press release. And listen to Paul Robertson on Big Picture Science from the SETI Institute.
by Eric Ford | Oct 17, 2012 | Research, Star & Planet Formation, Star Properties
An aging star polluted with lithium. A massive planet with a highly elliptical orbit. To an international team of astronomers, these add up to the first clear evidence of a planet’s destruction by its star—and maybe a glimpse of Earth’s far-off fate. Read more in the...
by Eric Ford | Jun 22, 2012 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Research, Star Properties
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 new tool in the quest to understand the evolution of stars like the Sun, and in the search for planets like Earth. Read more in...
by Eric Ford | Apr 7, 2010 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Planet-forming & Debris Disks, Research, Star Properties
A mysterious planet-like object orbiting a not-quite-starlike “brown dwarf” is the most recent enigma discovered by astronomers with their ever-more powerful telescopes. Read more at PSU press release.
