In August 2018 NASA launched Parker Solar Probe, humanity’s mission to touch the Sun. In November, PSP flew close to the Sun for the first time (getting more than 5x closer to the Sun than the Earth), as it traveled, one of it’s scientific instruments measured the magnetic field it was experiencing.
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When astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope uncovered an oddball galaxy that looked like it didn’t have much dark matter, some thought the finding was hard to believe and looked for a simpler explanation.
Committee Charter (pdf) Kimberly Andrews Espy Wayne State University Caroline Garcia University of Arizona Gregory L. Geoffroy Iowa State University Elizabeth Hoffman (Vice Chair) Iowa State University Barbara Lam (ex officio) AURA Duc Ma University of Arizona Warren Madden (Chair) Iowa State University James McAteer New Mexico State University
AURA congratulates Chryssa Kouveliotou, member of the AURA Board of Directors, and recipient of the 2021 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
It is with great sadness that we learned this week of the recent passing of former AURA President, Dr. Goetz Oertel.
In 29 new scientific papers, the Dark Energy Survey examines the largest-ever maps of galaxy distribution and shapes, extending more than 7 billion light-years across the Universe
An international team using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in October, will study a portion of the radiated cloud called the Orion Bar to learn more about the influence massive stars have on their environments, and even on the formation of our own solar system.
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have traced the locations of five brief, powerful radio blasts to the spiral arms of five distant galaxies.
Stunning new images of Jupiter from Gemini North and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcase the planet at infrared, visible, and ultraviolet wavelengths of light.
The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) Annual Meeting is an opportunity for representatives to gather from the 47 US institutions and 3 international affiliates that comprise AURA’s Member Institutions.
Congratulations to Dana W. Longcope, Montana State University, Bozeman, winner of the 2021 National Academy of Sciences’ Arctowski Medal for fundamental research on the nature of solar magnetism, magnetic topology, and reconnection.
In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the renowned observatory at a brilliant “celebrity star,” one of the brightest stars seen in our galaxy, surrounded by a glowing halo of gas and dust.
This outer realm of exoplanetary systems is an ideal hunting ground for NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope. Webb will probe the atmospheres of nearby known exoplanets, such as HR 8799 and 51 Eridani b, at infrared wavelengths.
As it celebrates its 40th anniversary STScI is looking forward to the future, including the October 2021 launch of NASA’s next flagship mission, the James Webb Space Telescope, as well as other endeavors.
Astronomers have found two close pairs of quasars in the distant Universe. Follow-up observations with Gemini North spectroscopically resolved one of the distant quasar pairs, after their discovery with the Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia spacecraft.
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