Astronomy & Astrophysics

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Upcoming Events

Assembly Theory, Unlocking the Physics of Life

Pupin 1402

4:05 PM - 5:05 PM

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Galaxy Formation and Chemical Enrichment in the Early Universe

Pupin 1402

4:05 PM - 4:35 PM

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Colloquium by Ke Fang

Pupin 1402

4:05 PM - 5:05 PM

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News

January 23, 2025

Alumnus Susan Clark wins the Helen B. Warner Prize

January 21, 2025

Kishalay De joins the faculty!

January 14, 2025

Prof Sironi Awarded Presidential Award, PECASE

Featured Publications

Inferring the density and membership of stellar streams with flexible models: The GD-1 stream in Gaia Data Release 3

Kiyan Tavangar

Adrian M. Price-Whelan

Exoplanet Occurrence Rate with Age for FGK Stars in Kepler

Maryum Sayeed

Ruth Angus

Travis Berger

Yuxi (Lucy) Lu

Jessie Christiansen

Daniel Foreman-Mackey

Melissa Ness

Using simulation based inference on tidally perturbed dwarf galaxies: the dynamics of NGC205

Axel Widmark

Kathryn V. Johnston

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Big Apple Sky Calendar

Date: Mar 5-6
Event: On these evenings, the first-quarter Moon is next to Jupiter, nearly overhead

Date: Mar 13-14
Event: Full Worm Moon and total lunar eclipse, visible in the entire U.S., with the Moon entering the umbra at 12:09 am EDT and mid-eclipse occurring at 1:59 EDT when it will have a spooky, faint orange-red glow-—because the only light reaching it is refracted around the edge of the Earth (360 degrees of sunsets!)

Date: Mar 20
Event: Vernal equinox at 5:23 pm EDT when the Sun rises exactly in the east, sets exactly in the west, and is in the sky exactly 12 hours, regardless of your location

Date: Mar 29
Event: New Moon 5:49 am EDT and Partial eclipse of the Sun, but the Sun won’t be up in North America

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