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A pair of comets partially melt as they collide in an inset image, lower right, with the system’s young star and accretion disk in the background.

Photo Credit

Thomas Müller (MPIA/HdA)

Scientist imagine the scene when two comets collided in the Fomalhaut system, only 25 light years from Earth.

Bill Paxton looks out at the the ocean from the cupola of Kohn Hall.

March 15, 2021

An Accidental Astrophysicist

March 8, 2021

Sophisticated Skin

February 16, 2021

Scholars of Outstanding Promise

An artist’s interpretation of a quasar and the black hole at its center.

January 19, 2021

A Most Distant Signal

January 12, 2021

Enlightening Dark Ions

November 23, 2020

Here’s Looking at You, MKID

November 18, 2020

Excellence Cited

November 2, 2020

Physics at Your Fingertips

October 22, 2020

Coming Together, Virtually

September 29, 2020

September 24, 2020

From the Poles to the Stars

September 9, 2020

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