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CARMA-NRO Orion Survey

A new map for a birthplace of stars

A Yale-led research group has created the most detailed maps yet of a vast...

“Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas that Reveal the Cosmos” (Yale University Press).

Priyamvada Natarajan receives the Gustav Ranis International Book Prize

Priyamvada Natarajan, professor of astronomy and physics, received the...

Urry honored with Lamar Faculty Award

Meg Urry is one of this year’s recipients of the Howard R. Lamar Faculty...

This figure highlights galaxies discovered by ALMA that are evolving into a galaxy cluster. The outer field is from data taken by the Hershel Space Observatory. The middle image, from a survey by the National Science Foundation’s South Pole Telescope, uncovered the distant galactic source that revealed 14 galaxies.

New study offers front-row seat to a galactic pile-up

Tim Miller, a doctoral candidate in astronomy, is first author of a new...

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Yale University
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