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MOTHRA has its eyes - all 1,140 of them - focused on the ‘cosmic web’
Wed, 03/11/2026
The new telescope, under construction in Chile, may help astronomers observe the “web” of dark matter and gas connecting galaxies. Make way for MOTHRA...
Artist’s impression of WR 112, a binary system containing a massive, evolved Wolf-Rayet star and an OB-type companion. As their stellar winds collide, dust forms and spirals outward, consisting mostly of extremely tiny, nanometer-sized grains along with a secondary population about 100 times larger. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M. Weiss.
A study in stardust: Massive binary stars emit tiny carbon particles
Thu, 02/26/2026
Yale junior Donglin Wu leads a new study showing that some of the biggest stars in the universe shed some of the smallest dust particles. It’s fitting that Yale...
Ray Jayawardhana (Yale Astronomy & Physics, BS 1994) named President of Caltech
Tue, 01/06/2026
Congratulations to Ray Jayawardhana ’94—one of Yale’s standout astronomy and physics majors of the early 1990s who has been named the 10th president of the...
In Memorium - Professor Pierre Demarque
Mon, 10/06/2025
The Astronomy department is deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of one of its stalwarts - brilliant scholar, visionary leader, inspiring teacher and mentor...
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