Bright mind
Wolf Cukier garnered national media attention for finding a new planet during a high school internship at NASA. He has continued his streak of discoveries as a Princeton undergraduate. Continue Reading →
Category: NASA
Mystery on the moon
Graduate student Erin Flowers investigates similarities between Earth
and Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Continue Reading →
Engine of cosmic evolution: Eve Ostriker looks under the hood
By Catherine Zandonella Outside Eve Ostriker’s office door stretches the universe, dotted with orange galaxies against the black backdrop of space. The mural lines the hallway in Princeton’s astrophysical sciences building, where it inspires Ostriker Continue Reading →
Breathing life into the Indian Ocean by predicting ‘dead zones’
By Kevin McElwee In 2001, off India’s coastal state of Goa, the shrimp catch dropped by 80 percent in just a few years. The die-off was later traced to a dip in the ocean’s oxygen Continue Reading →
Cosmic background: 51 years ago, an accidental discovery sparked a big bang in astrophysics
ON NEW YEAR’S DAY 2015, A BALLOON-BORNE SPACECRAFT ascended above Antarctica and snapped crisp photos of space, unobscured by the humidity of Earth’s atmosphere. Meanwhile, a telescope located 4,000 miles to the north, in the Continue Reading →
Star formation, black holes focus of new research
TWO NEW RESEARCH NETWORKS IN ASTROPHYSICS got off the ground this year, one to explore how stars form and the other to study how black holes accumulate matter, with the goal of answering fundamental questions Continue Reading →
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