astronomy

Rachel Bezanson, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh, will present “Galaxy Cannibals: The Evolution of Massive Galaxies Through Cosmic Time” at the next Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series event. Bezanson’s lecture will be held Thursday, ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to the first installment of the 2018-19 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series Thursday, Oct. 11, at 8 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Benoit Famaey of the University of Strasbourg in France will present “Galaxy Dy...

Last summer, undergraduate student Chris Carr spotted a “smudge” on deep sky images taken from the university’s Burrell Schmidt telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in southwest Arizona. It was so faint he hardly saw it. But he flagged it for Astronomy Professor Chris Mihos, with whom he’d b...

Case Western Reserve astronomers find vast ionized hydrogen cloud in 'Whirlpool Galaxy' using ultra-sensitive Arizona telescope Astronomers have been keenly peering into M51, or the Whirlpool Galaxy, since the 1800s, its signature spiral structure informing the earliest debates over the nature of ga...

Dimitar Sasselov, a professor with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will be the last lecturer in the 2017-18 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series. Sasselov will present “Other Earths and Origins of Life” Thursday, April 12, from 8 to 9 p.m. in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History...

Glenn Starkman, Distinguished University Professor and professor of physics and astronomy, wrote a piece describing the scientific and cultural achievements of the late Stephen Hawking. The article, titled “The reverberating glow of Stephen Hawking's daring theories and elastic mind,” was written fo...

Renowned astronomers from across the country will give five free talks throughout the year at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (1 Wade Oval) as part of the Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series. The next lecture, titled “The New Moon,” will be presented by Brett Denevi, a staff member at the ...

The 2017-2018 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series continues today (Dec. 14) from 8 to 9 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Mark Vogelsberger from MIT will present “Simulating the Universe.” About the lecture Modern supercomputer simulations model the evolution of the universe starti...

The second speaker in the 2017-18 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series will be Philip Hopkins from the California Institute of Technology. He will present “The Universe on a Computer: The Formation of Galaxies, Stars and Planets in a Violent Cosmos” Thursday, Nov. 16, from 8 to 9 p.m. at the Clevel...

The Physics and Astronomy Club will host a talk by John Ruhl, the Connecticut Professor in the Department of Physics, Wednesday, Oct. 25, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Rockefeller Building, Room 301. In his talk, titled “The Physics of Climate Change,” Ruhl will review the basic physics of climate chan...