Spotlight on Astronomy

Dr. Joseph Veverka has been awarded the 2013 Gerard P. Kuiper Prize.

Public invited to join in Wave at Saturn at Cornell WHAT: Participate in a worldwide interplanetary portrait. Free and open to the public WHEN: July 19, 2013, 3:30 to 5:30 pm. WHERE: Sciencenter Amphitheater  

CBS Reports on SOFIA

The SOFIA airborne telescope featured with Prof. Terry Herter starting ~16mins in.

Dr. Alex Hayes is Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. Hayes uses spacecraft-based remote sensing to study the properties of planetary surfaces, their interactions with the interior, and if present, atmosphere. Recently, he has focused on studying the coupling of surface, subsurface, and atmospheric processes on Titan and Mars.

A team led by Alex Hayes, Cornell professor of astronomy and a member of Cassini’s radar team, set out to look for how much wind would be required to generate waves on Titan

A new neighbor of the Milky Way in the constellation Leo, has been discovered with the Arecibo telescope through its radio emission by the ALFALFA survey, led by Professors Riccardo Giovanelli and Martha Haynes.

The April 25 paper published in the journal Science provides the first direct evidence of small meteoroids, around a half-inch to several yards in size, breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn’s rings.

Assistant Professor Dominik Riechers and his team have discovered a very distant galaxy which is converting its molecular gas into stars at a huge rate -- nearby 2000 times more than our own Milky Way Galaxy forms stars. Read more at: http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2013/starburst634/