"We set out on this path to better understand dark energy, but to everyone's surprise, including our own, we seem to have stumbled upon a new dark component of the universe."
Starry skies over Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile and the 4-meter Victor M. Blano Telescope (center), home to the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera and unprecedented discovery potential for astronomers at Texas A&M University and around the world as members of the Dark Energy Survey. (Fermilab) By Shana K. Hutchins,…
Casey Papovich, will test the first official round of James Webb Space Telescope testing before the $8 billion successor to the Hubble Space Telescope launches.
Vince Estrada-Carpenter is in his third year of graduate study within the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, where his focus is observational cosmology. By Chris Jarvis, Texas A&M University College of Science Vince Estrada-Carpenter ’19 remembers watching a documentary about the origins…
Artist’s illustration of two merging neutron stars. The narrow beams represent the gamma-ray burst while the rippling space-time grid indicates the isotropic gravitational waves that characterize the merger. Swirling clouds of material ejected from the merging stars are a possible source of the light that was seen at lower…
The Milky Way as seen over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile and the 4-meter Victor M. Blanco Telescope, home to the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera and some of history’s first images of a binary neutron star merger, taken by Texas A&M University astronomer Jennifer Marshall. (Matt Dieterich)…
A glance into the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Shot at a focal length of 70mm. By Shraddha Sankhe, Texas A&M University College of Engineering Texas A&M University researchers are part of an international collaborative project studying germanium for dark matter research that has received the National…
A total solar eclipse is seen from Palembang city on March 9, 2016 in Palembang, South Sumatra province, Indonesia. (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) By Shana K. Hutchins, Texas A&M University College of Science Local stargazers and skywatching enthusiasts are encouraged to join the Texas A&M University Astronomy Group…
Texas A&M University astronomer Darren DePoy served as the project scientist for the Dark Energy Camera, one of the most powerful survey instruments of its kind that is able to see light from more than 100,000 galaxies up to 8 billion light years away in each snapshot. (Reidar Hahn/Fermilab) By Shana…
Overhead view of The Backyard at The Stella Hotel, site of quarterly star parties to be jointly sponsored by The Stella and Texas A&M Physics and Astronomy. By Shana K. Hutchins, Texas A&M University College of Science It’s a match made in heaven, er, the heavens for one of Bryan-College Station’s crown…