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September 26, 2018

Elusive Origin of Stellar Geysers Revealed by 3-D Simulations By Thomas Sumner

A snapshot from a simulation of the churning gas that blankets a star 80 times the sun’s mass

September 24, 2018

Gaia Data Releases Spark Open-Access Success By Thomas Sumner

Scientists projected data collected by the Gaia spacecraft onto the dome of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York City

September 17, 2018

Hack Weeks Gaining Ground in the Earth and Space Sciences, Earth & Space Science News

3d rendering network and data exchange over planet earth in space

September 10, 2018

Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star Merger Offer New Regime of Understanding

Digital illustration of neutron stars colliding (center), they fling material outward at nearly the speed of light in particle jets (pink)

August 31, 2018

The New Science of Seeing Around Corners, Quanta Magazine

Digital illustration of a man and rabbit running in a maze toward each other at different sides of a corner

August 06, 2018

Next to Its Solar Twins, the Sun Stands Out (Science News)

A composite image of the Sun where each slice gives a view of the Sun in a different wavelength of light

July 04, 2018

The Gaia Sausage: The Major Collision That Changed the Milky Way Galaxy

An impression of the encounter between the Milky Way galaxy and the smaller Sausage galaxy about 8 billion to 10 billion years ago

June 30, 2018

Center for Computational Astrophysics Fall Colloquia Schedule

Digital illustration of galaxy formation