astrophysics

The Orion OB Association as a Generator for the Hot Circumgalactic Medium Chase Fuller; University of Iowa The Hot Circumgalactic Medium (CGM) surrounds galaxies. It is…

SUNY Oswego students (from left) Michele Manno, Hugh Riley Randall and Selim Kalici attend a lecture from Oswego alumnus Earl Bellinger, who is now a postdoctoral research fellow at the world-renowned Max Planck Institute for…

The day after this rehearsal, these musicians — mostly students at Interlochen Center for the Arts — will fly to Armenia, to play at Starmus, an international festival of science and the arts.This…

Abbott, B. P. et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration) GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161101 (2017).Abbott, B. P. et al. Multi-messenger…

This Hubble image gives the most detailed view of the entire Crab Nebula ever. The Crab is among the most interesting and well-studied objects in astronomy. This image is the largest image ever taken with Hubble’s WFPC2 camera. It was…

< Back to Leadership Team Dr. Mark Clampin is the Astrophysics Division Director in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. The goals of the Astrophysics Division are to understand how the universe…

Knowledge of astronomy and astrophysics is crucial to understanding some of the most fundamental questions of our universe. We cannot know the origins of anything—from galaxies to black holes to life itself—without studying the cosmos in…

A University of Manitoba (U of M) grad student has helped confirm theories about an unusually-shaped object in space more 18,000 light years away. The Manatee Nebula is named such because astronomers who photographed it in…

Jorge Alfaro knows what a home run feels like. The Padres catcher, all 6’3” and 230 pounds of him, has hit 109 homers as a professional. On Saturday afternoon he thought he had another one. Alfaro ripped a shot at 115.2…

This ground-based image of comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was taken on July 16, 2020, from the Northern Hemisphere. The inset image, taken on August 8, 2020, by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals a close-up of the comet after its pass by the…