Astronomy
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New analyses of pulsar radio emissions may reveal a long sought-after way to detect gravitational waves.
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University of Maryland Astronomers Find X-rays Lingering Years After Landmark Neutron Star CollisionNew, most complete start-to-finish view of neutron star merger rewrites the way scientists understand these events.
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University of Maryland astronomer is part of a team selected by NASA to design a mission for the first global view of space weather.
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The award recognizes Richardson’s breakthrough investigation into the internal structure of asteroids and comets.
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Clock paints picture of a more orderly, predictable sun.
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CMNS awardees include eight current undergraduates, three recent alumni, and six current graduate students (one of whom is also a recent graduate).
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Research team that includes UMD astronomer discovered an asteroid with one of the shortest "years" known.
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UMD astronomer Sylvain Veilleux helped discover the farthest galaxy group to date.
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Data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) reveal start-to-finish sequence of an outburst from comet 46P/Wirtanen.
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Manuella Djomaleu, Jillian Kunze and Nicholas Poniatowski honored as three of the university’s most successful seniors.
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Zwicky Transient Facility observations reveal surprising transformations from sleepy LINER galaxies to blazing quasars within months.
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UMD-led team re-examined data from a 2016 gamma-ray burst and found a signature that perfectly matches a gold- and platinum-producing explosion observed by LIGO in 2017.