COLLEGE STATION — The Astrophysics Group in the Texas A&M University Department of Physics is hosting its monthly Astronomy Open House Friday (April 24) from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the campus observatory. The free event will feature telescope observing, star gazing, and a public talk. Free parking is available in Lot No. 1 of […]
COLLEGE STATION — The Astrophysics Group in the Texas A&M University Department of Physics is hosting its second open house Friday (Mar. 27) from 8 to 10 p.m. at the campus observatory in conjunction with Physics & Engineering Festival 2009 . The free event will feature telescope observing, star gazing, and a public talk. Free […]
COLLEGE STATION — The Astrophysics Group in the Texas A&M University Department of Physics is hosting a free open house Friday (Feb. 27) from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the campus observatory to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy. The free event will feature telescope observing, star gazing, astronomy demonstrations and a public talk. Free […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University, along with eight other astronomical research organizations from three continents, has signed the Founders’ Agreement to construct and operate the 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) at Las Campanas Observatory in the Andes Mountains of Chile. “We are poised to enter the age of the greatest advances in astronomy — […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — While walking home on November 11, 1572, astronomer Tycho Brahe idly glanced at the sky. He was surprised to see a bright star in the constellation Cassiopeia that hadn’t been there before. The new star, which we now know to be the result of a stellar explosion or supernova, grew brighter than […]
COLLEGE STATION — Just as he has for most of the last 30 years, Texas A&M University astronomer Dr. Nicholas B. Suntzeff spent the past week watching the night sky. His obsession in this particular case was a comet — particular, more precisely, because he didn’t need a telescope. In likely the biggest surprise in […]
NEW YORK — Dr. Nicholas B. Suntzeff, professor of physics at Texas A&M University and a world-renowned expert in supernovae and cosmology, is one of 52 international researchers who will share in the 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their work toward the discovery that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. The prestigious prize, valued […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University astrophysicist Dr. Lifan Wang and colleagues Drs. Dietrich Baade and Ferdinando Patat from the renowned European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Munich, Germany, are reporting remarkable new findings that help shed light on a decade-long debate about one kind of supernova, the explosion that marks a star’s final demise: Does […]
by JOSH BAUGH COLLEGE STATION — The 2006 Mitchell Symposium on Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics kicks off Monday at Texas A&M University, bringing together some of the subjects’ foremost experts from across the world. “This is a quality event,” said Roland Allen, a theoretical physicist at A&M. “We’ll have people here that are at […]
COLLEGE STATION — The casting of the first mirror of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in Arizona has been completed and is a big step in the process of creating the largest telescope ever built, says Ed Fry, head of the Department of Physics at Texas A&M University. Texas A&M is one of eight institutions […]
The New York Times published an article on August 30 about the Giant Magellan Telescope Consortium and its ambitions to construct the largest telescope ever. Thanks to a $1.75 million gift to Texas A&M from George P. Mitchell ’40, Texas A&M is one of eight institutions funding the telescope, which will be the largest and […]
TUSCON, Ariz. — A swirling vat of molten glass is bringing officials and scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University to Tucson this week. Along with their other five partners, the two flagship universities are celebrating the casting of the first of seven mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) […]
PASADENA, Calif. The Carnegie Observatories of the Carnegie Institution and the University of Arizona, Steward Observatory Mirror Lab, have signed an agreement to produce the first mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) — the first telescope of the next-generation of extremely large ground-based telescopes (ELT) to begin mirror production. Texas A&M University is a […]
COLLEGE STATION — The Department of Physics at Texas A&M University will bring together six of the world’s leading authorities on astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology at a conference on Friday, October 17. The objective of the panel is to help design a future role for Texas A&M in studies of phenomena at the far reaches […]
Texas A&M University’s astronomy program enjoyed a brief moment in the sun earlier this week when a photograph created by Mark Lemmon, a visiting assistant professor of physics, was featured as NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for Sept. 18. Lemmon’s picture, “Surrounded by Mars,” represents a large panoramic view of the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft […]
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