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New TED-Ed video on black holes has Yale astrophysics expertise

Thu, 09/20/2018
Fabio Pacucci, a Yale postdoctoral associate, has helped create an animated video about black holes for the educational website TED-Ed. The five-minute video, “Could the...

Astronomical Society of the Pacific honors Pieter van Dokkum

Tue, 08/14/2018
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has honored Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum with the 2018 Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award, which honors important research results based upon...

A New Frontier for Exoplanet Hunting

Wed, 07/18/2018
The first exoplanets were all found using the radial velocity method of measuring the “wobble” of a star — movement caused by the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet....

Greg Laughlin Named Kavli Lecturer for January 2019 Meeting

Mon, 06/25/2018
With support from the Kavli Foundation, the Vice-Presidents of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) name a special invited lecturer to kick off each semiannual AAS meeting...

2018 Winners of Prestigious Hoffleit Research Fellowship Announced

Tue, 05/29/2018
After a rigorous application process, the Yale Department of Astronomy is pleased to announce that the Dorrit Hoffleit Undergraduate Research Scholarship has been awarded to...
CARMA-NRO Orion Survey

A new map for a birthplace of stars

Wed, 05/16/2018
A Yale-led research group has created the most detailed maps yet of a vast seedbed of stars similar to Earth’s Sun. The maps provide unprecedented detail of the structure of...

Priyamvada Natarajan receives the Gustav Ranis International Book Prize

Tue, 05/15/2018
Priyamvada Natarajan, professor of astronomy and physics, received the Gustav Ranis International Book Prize for best book for “Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific...