Brian Greene Popularizes Science for the Public
The Columbia theoretical physicist launched the World Science Festival to bring wondrous ideas of scientific discovery to NYC. Visit one or more of the 70 events May 28-June 2 and see for yourself.
Undergraduate Columbia Astronomy Students Intern at Chile’s Universidad Católica
Yasmeen Asali and John Staunton, two Columbia undergraduates from the astronomy department, spent two months in Chile in a practicum at Universidad Católica’s Astrophysics Institute as part of an ongoing exchange program between both institutions.
Pairs of Small Colliding Galaxies May Seed Future Stars
In a new study, astronomers show how gas expelled in the merger of two small galaxies can linger across vast distances for billions of years, where it may eventually feed gas to more massive galaxies to make new stars.
Astronomers Glimpse Cosmic Origins of Gold, Platinum, in Neutron Star Collision
Astronomers, including a team at Columbia University, have for the first time witnessed a pair of dead neutron stars colliding, and have confirmed that the heaviest metals in the universe, from gold to platinum, are formed in explosions like this one spotted 130 million light-years away.
5 Questions: Astronomer David Kipping on The Great American Eclipse
On August 21, millions of people will bear witness as the moon slips over the entire face of the sun, obscuring its light and allowing only the glow of its outer atmosphere to mark its place in the sky.