astronomy

In cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the Cleveland Astronomical Society, the Department of Astronomy will sponsor the 2015-2016 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series through the support of the Arthur S. Holden Sr. Endowment. Renowned astronomers from across the country wi...

Glenn Starkman, director of the Institute for the Science of Origins and Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics, will lead the next Science Café Cleveland event—focused on the Large Hadron Collider—Monday, Oct. 12, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Tasting Room of Great Lakes Brewing ...

The 2014-15 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series will conclude today (April 16) with a talk by Alison Sills, professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Sills will give a presentation titled “Stellar Mergers and Interactions: Yes, Virginia, Stars ...

The 2014-15 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series will continue with a talk by Volker Bromm, professor in the Department of Astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin, today (Thursday, March 5) at 8 p.m. in the Murch Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Bromm will present “Sta...

Case Western Reserve University astronomers peered deep into space to discover new features of a galaxy that’s been sketched and photographed for 170 years. The researchers were able to see faint plumes extending from the northeast and south of the nearby spiral galaxy M51a, also called the “Whirlp...

The 2014-15 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series will continue with a talk by Josh Frieman, a senior staff scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and professor of astronomy and astrophysics and member of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, on T...

The 2014-15 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series will continue with a talk by Sarah Ballard, the NASA Carl Sagan fellow at the University of Washington, on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. in the Murch Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. In her lecture, “Directions to the Nearest Al...

Structure, behavior better explained by galaxy collisions Satellite dwarf galaxies at the edges of the Milky Way and neighboring Andromeda defy the accepted model of galaxy formation, and recent attempts to pigeon-hole them into the model are flawed, an international team of scientists reports. T...

Cole Miller, professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland, will present the fourth installment of the 2013-2014 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series Thursday, March 6, at 8 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Murch Auditorium. In his talk, "The Mysteries of Black Holes," Mill...

The 2013-14 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series will continue with a talk by Risa Wechsler, associate professor in the physics department at Stanford University, on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m. in the Murch Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Wechsler, a member of the Kavli Ins...