COLLEGE STATION — In celebration of Student Research Week (March 23-27) at Texas A&M University, the College of Science will be taking five with five different people involved in various aspects and stages of research at Texas A&M and beyond. Today’s kickoff segment features Ting Li, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics and […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University astronomers are among the hundreds of scientists worldwide celebrating the first fruits from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), a five-year global effort to map the southern sky in unprecedented detail with the ultimate goal of explaining the universe’s accelerating expansion. Earlier today (March 10), the U.S. Department of Energy-funded […]
COLLEGE STATION — The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents has authorized the execution of an amended and restated Founders’ Agreement and Commitment Agreement with the GMTO Corporation, reaffirming Texas A&M University’s support to assist in building the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) and helping to pave the way for construction to begin in Chile […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University has been selected for membership in the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. (AURA), the prestigious international organization dedicated to the advancement of astronomy and related sciences. Texas A&M has been admitted for a three-year term through June 30, 2017 as the 40th United States member of […]
The stars have never been closer to Texas, as 2014’s final months brought the world’s largest telescope to the threshold of construction. The Giant Magellan Telescope will be 10 times stronger than the Hubble Space Telescope when it sees first light in 2021, surpassing any previous observatory. Texas A&M and the University of Texas are […]
COLLEGE STATION — In addition to a world-class astronomy program, Texas A&M University is home to one of the top three college astronomy observatories in the nation, according to the website College Rank. The Texas A&M Physics and Astronomy Teaching Observatory is ranked No. 3 in a recent survey of the 25 Best College Astronomy […]
COLLEGE STATION — Three Texas A&M University astronomers have their sights set on new astrophysical insights involving the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond, thanks to the help of recent grants from the National Science Foundation. Jennifer Marshall, Casey Papovich and Kim-Vy Tran each led proposals selected for funding as part of the latest round of […]
COLLEGE STATION — As a child peering through her toy telescope, Texas A&M University graduate student Ting Li was fascinated by the Moon and constellations — not so much by their cosmic beauty, but about why they exist in the first place. “The sky always seemed so beautiful to me,” Li said. “But outer space […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Science Foundation (NSF) has officially agreed to support the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) in managing the construction of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in Chile. Texas A&M University astronomers Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Lifan Wang and Lucas Macri in the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell […]
COLLEGE STATION — An international team of astronomers led by Texas A&M University’s Kim-Vy Tran and using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unexpectedly discovered the most distant cosmic magnifying glass yet, produced by a monster elliptical galaxy. The galaxy existed 9.6 billion years ago, beating the previous record by 200 million years. It is known […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University is involved in two of the three dark matter experiments — including both of the ones searching for weakly interacting dark matter particles — selected for future funding by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. On Friday (July 11), the DOE’s Office of Science and […]
COLLEGE STATION — An international team of astronomers has discovered a new exoplanet orbiting just one star in a two-star system — a dynamic duo not only strikingly similar to our Earth and Sun but also key to the continuing evolution of planetary formation science. The team’s research, published today in the July 4 edition […]
PASADENA, Calif. The Giant Magellan Telescope’s third primary mirror will be unveiled at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory Mirror Lab (SOML) on December 6, 2013. The combined surface area of the three mirrors created to date surpasses that of any existing telescope and will help enable astronomers to peer more deeply into space than […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin may be former football rivals, but the Lone Star State’s two research giants have teamed up to detect the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy ever found — one created within 700 million years after the Big Bang. The research is published in […]
COLLEGE STATION — Nicholas B. Suntzeff, university distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been recognized as one of three faculty recipients of 2013 Bush Excellence Awards for international teaching, international research and public service. Suntzeff, who was honored for his excellence in international research, received the prestigious award along with […]
COLLEGE STATION — On an otherwise unremarkable evening last Saturday (Aug. 31) in Chile, the first official image in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) was recorded by the world’s most powerful digital camera, marking the beginning of a new era of discoveries about dark energy and other mysteries of the universe. For hundreds of nights […]
TUCSON, Ariz. — On Saturday, August 24, 2013, the third mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) — of which Texas A&M University is a founding member — will be cast inside a rotating furnace at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory Mirror Lab (SOML), the only facility in the world where mirrors of this […]
COLLEGE STATION — Collecting dust at a warehouse in Switzerland is a piece of space junk that Texas A&M University physicist Peter McIntyre and his team worked on for three years. Though the magnet never left Earth — the casualty of a NASA policy change — McIntyre’s effort helped make him one of many co-authors […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Nicholas B. Suntzeff, professor of physics and astronomy and inaugural holder of the Mitchell-Heep-Munnerlyn Chair in Observational Astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been appointed as a University Distinguished Professor, effective Sept. 1, 2013. Suntzeff, director of the Texas A&M astronomy program and a member of the George P. and Cynthia […]
COLLEGE STATION — There is research that is off the wall, some off the charts and some off the planet, such as what a Texas A&M University aerospace and physics professor is exploring. It’s a plan to deflect a killer asteroid by using paint, and the science behind it is absolutely rock solid, so to […]
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