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Marla Geha, awarded the Dylan Hixon ’88 Prize for teaching excellence in the natural sciences
Thu, 05/05/2022
In a ceremony held in the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning on May 5, Yale College Dean Marvin Chun read the nominating students’ words of praise: “Marla...
Priya Natarajan receives Liberty Science Center ‘Genius Award’
Mon, 05/02/2022
Priya Natarajan, professor of astronomy and of physics. who explores cosmology, gravitational lensing, and black hole physics, is being honored with a Liberty Science Center...
New, improved Dragonfly telescope is a galactic gas detector
Thu, 03/10/2022
The Dragonfly telescope is undergoing a metamorphosis. For the past decade, the Dragonfly Telephoto Array — designed by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum and the...
"Evolution of Stars and Gas in Galaxies" by Beatrice Tinsley now digitized
Mon, 03/07/2022
A classic and highly influential paper by the late Professor Beatrice Tinsley has been digitized and made available to a wider audience. The paper "Evolution...
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Public Outreach

Join us for an outdoor session on the LFOP observing deck on Tuesdays, (weather permitting) at 8:30pm ET. Visitors will need to line-up in a socially-distanced queue and wear masks. We also ask visitors to not touch the telescopes. As always, public observing is a free event and open to everyone.

In-person Planetarium shows are still on-hold as the LFOP building and domes remain closed to the public. In the meantime, please visit our YouTube page to view past episides of our virtual planetarium shows via the link below.

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Climate and Diversity

The Astronomy Department stands in support of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), who continue to suffer from long-standing systemic racism. Recent incidents of police brutality against BIPOC are symptomatic of systemic racism that cannot be tolerated.

Read more… Yale Astronomy Climate and Diversity Statement

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