December

THE DEEP END: Images of a small patch of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field have revealed several of the most distant galaxies ever seen. The newfound galaxies and their associated redshifts are labeled on the Hubble image. Image: NASA/ESA Read...

The HEAD Executive Committee has selected: Dr. Joey Neilsen for the 2012-2013 HEAD Dissertation Prize for his thesis: " Winds of Change: The Physics of Accretion, Ejection, and X-ray Variability in GRS1915+105" Dr. Neilsen received his PhD in 2011 from...

On February 1, 2013 at 2-3:30 PM, there will be a book launch event in Phillips auditorium for Avi Loeb's new textbook " The First Galaxies in the Universe." The textbook was written in collaboration with Loeb's former Astronomy graduate student, Steve...