Astronomy & Astrophysics

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Pupin 1402

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Dynamical supermassive black hole masses across cosmic time

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Neutron Stars Are Plastic

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August 31, 2026

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June 26, 2026

New Columbia President Mnookin features Astronomy and Astrophysics in her inaugural address

June 10, 2026

Two Astronomy faculty win Natural Sciences Awards

Featured Publications

On the Deepest Search for Galactic Center Pulsars and an Examination of an Intriguing Millisecond Pulsar Candidate

Karen I. Perez

Vishal Gajjar

Slavko Bogdanov

Jules P. Halpern

Paul B. Demorest

Steve Croft

Matt Lebofsky

David H. E. MacMahon

Andrew P. V. Siemion

Magnetic Field-line Curvature and Its Role in Particle Acceleration by Magnetically Dominated Turbulence

Samuel T. Sebastian

Luca Comisso

Baryonic Masses and Properties of Gaseous Satellite Galaxies

Jingyao Zhu

Yasmeen Asali

Mary Putman

et al.

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Big Apple Sky Calendar

Date: Jul 6
Event: Earth at aphelion, the most distant it ever gets from the Sun: 1.017 AU (95 million miles)

Date: Jul 9
Event: Venus passes very close to the bright star Regulus (the brightest star in Leo, best viewed looking west about an hour after sunset

Date: Jul 21,28
Event: Join the AAA for evening observing at the High Line, 8–10 pm

Date: Jul 29
Event: Full Buck Moon

Date: Aug 2-3
Event: The Moon passes just north of Saturn

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