Astronomers have captured an unprecedented image of a cosmic recycling project in progress — fragments of a dying star being busted up, stripped, and absorbed into...
Astronomers have followed a faint, cosmic trail of gas to a third galaxy that has no dark matter.
In a new study in The Astrophysical Journal, a team of Yale astronomers...
The new telescope, under construction in Chile, may help astronomers observe the “web” of dark matter and gas connecting galaxies.
Make way for MOTHRA, the world’s largest...
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 junior...
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 California...
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 Prof...
A Yale-led astronomy team may have discovered the first direct evidence of a supermassive black hole just after it formed — in a galaxy they’re calling “Infinity.”
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