astronomy

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"This work has the potential to explain the magnetic dynamics relevant in, for example, neutron star mergers and black hole formation, with direct applications to multimessenger astronomy," Tripathi says.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

After receiving an email Friday afternoon, Keivan Stassun, a professor of physics and astronomy at Vanderbilt University and director of the Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-intensive Astrophysics, said he reached out to fellow board members.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

The committee included professors of law, astronomy and English and other disciplines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

"It'll be exciting, you know, in a slightly scary way, when they go behind the moon," Derek Buzasi, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, told AFP.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

Historians of astronomy trade insults on the question of whether there are equants in Copernicus or not; the answer is that there are no equants, but there are mechanisms designed to replicate equants.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton