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Congratulations Class of 2020

Mon, 05/18/2020
To all of our Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 graduates, we congratulate you on successfully completing your degrees! The last few months have shown us many challenges, but...

Pieter van Dokkum Receives Natural Sciences Graduate Mentor Award

Tue, 05/12/2020
Each year, Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) recognizes faculty members who are exceptional advocates for the professional, scholarly and personal...

Yale’s EXPRES looks to the skies of a scorching, distant planet

Wed, 04/22/2020
Yale technology is giving astronomers a closer look at the atmosphere of a distant planet where it’s so hot the air contains vaporized metals. The planet, MASCARA-2 b, is 140...

Basu, Fischer, and Urry named AAS Fellows

Mon, 03/02/2020
American Astronomical Society Announces First Class of AAS Fellows   The American Astronomical Society (AAS), the major organization of professional astronomers in North...

Collision helped make the Milky Way — and now we know when

Mon, 01/13/2020
Thanks to some astrophysical sleuthing, researchers have pinpointed an early galactic merger that helped shape the Milky Way. The merger — a collision, actually — happened 11...

New image offers close-up view of interstellar comet

Tue, 11/26/2019
Yale astronomers Pieter van Dokkum, Cheng-Han Hsieh, Shany Danieli, and Gregory Laughlin have taken a new, close-up image of the interstellar comet 2l/Borisov.  2l/Borisov,...

Astro Undergrad Majors Recognized in First Annual Hoodie Ceremony

Fri, 11/22/2019
The Yale Astronomy Department officially recognized undergraduate majors in Astronomy and Astrophysics in its first annual hoodie ceremony on Friday, November 22, 2019. ...