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Seven Yale faculty members named AAAS fellows

Tue, 01/31/2023
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has elected seven Yale faculty members as part of its latest class of fellows. One of the fellows is Priyamvada...

Pieter van Dokkum honored for developing novel telescope

Fri, 01/13/2023
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum has received the 2023 Jackson-Gwilt Medal from the UK-based Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) for his development of the Dragonfly Telephoto...

Emma Louden selected to be part of the first cohort of Quad Fellows

Mon, 12/12/2022
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan Congratulates Inaugural Quad Fellows, including Yale Astronomy Graduate Student, Emma Louden. At the second in-person Quad Leaders’...

Yale device delivers data from ‘Hell Planet,’ leads astronomers to its orbit

Fri, 12/09/2022
A Yale-designed and developed instrument has given astronomers a better idea of how 55 Cnc e — also known as the “hell planet” — got where it is today.   A piece of Yale-...

What hurricanes and space storms have in common

Wed, 10/26/2022
Those massive, swirling radar images shown on TV during hurricane season may have an unexpected analog in the deepest reaches of the cosmos — extrasolar storms of dust and...

Natarajan appointed Fruton Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics

Wed, 08/17/2022
Priyamvada Natarajan, a theoretical astrophysicist who maps the unseen universe — invisible entities like dark matter, black holes, and dark energy — whose presence can only...

Yale women astronomers share their stories in ‘The Sky is for Everyone’

Wed, 08/10/2022
The story of women in astronomy is not simply a tale of the planets they’ve discovered and the black holes they’ve mapped. It is a history filled with persistence and...