astronomy

Join the Department of Astronomy as renowned astronomers from across the country give five free lectures throughout the year. The first speaker in the 2017-2018 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series is David Silva, director of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. Silva will present “Mapping t...

Across North America, people will get to witness a rare celestial event today: a solar eclipse, which occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and sun. Stacy McGaugh While certain parts of the United States will experience a total eclipse, Cleveland will only see a partial one, with 80 perce...

A solar eclipse will be visible across the United States Monday, Aug. 21. While Cleveland won’t be in the path of the total eclipse, a partial eclipse will be visible. The Department of Astronomy will host a Solar Eclipse Party in front of Kelvin Smith Library with a telescope and many pairs of ecl...

The 2016-2017 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series continues today (April 13) from 8 to 9 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Daniela Calzetti, professor of astronomy at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, will present “The Frontier From Space.” In 2015, the Hubble Space Teles...

In cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the Cleveland Astronomical Society, the Department of Astronomy—through the support of the Arthur S. Holden, Sr. Endowment—is sponsoring the 2016-2017 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series, featuring free lectures by renowned astronomer...

Is dark matter real, or did physicists get gravity wrong, as it operates at radically different scales than our own? At the next Science Café Cleveland, Stacy McGaugh, chair of the Department of Astronomy, will explain the controversy and talk about how his work gives new life to dark matter's riva...

The distribution of normal matter precisely determines gravitational acceleration in all common types of galaxies, a team led by Case Western Reserve University researchers reports. The team has shown this radial acceleration relation exists in nearby high-mass elliptical and low-mass spheroidal ga...

An astronomy colloquium will be held today (Jan. 25) from 3 to 4 p.m. in Sears Building, Room 552. Laura Lopez, assistant professor of astronomy at Ohio State University, will present “Observational Assessment of Stellar Feedback in Nearby Galaxies.” Massive stars have a profound astrophysical inf...

The 2016-2017 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series will continue today (Dec. 8) at 8 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Michael Skrutskie, professor and chair of the astronomy department at the University of Virginia, will present “The Quest for Infinite Telescope Aperture: Are We Th...

The 2016-2017 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series continues with Vanderbilt University’s Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, who will present “A Space-time Symphony of Gravitational Waves” today (Nov. 10) at 8 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. On Feb. 11, scientists announced the first detect...