March 2016 News

March 28, 2016
Move over, Chewbacca. The Yale Department of Astronomy is ready for its close-up. “Astronomy at Yale,” a new, 23-minute film about the faculty, students, and researchers...
March 24, 2016
As first-year graduate student in astrophysics Darryl Seligman worked through a problem set late one night, he received an email from a high school student. Needing a break,...
March 3, 2016
Yale astronomers have found the farthest known galaxy in the universe — again. Less than a year after aiding in the measurement of a galaxy 13.1 billion light years into the...
March 3, 2016
Perhaps it was fitting that Rainer Weiss visited Yale on Leap Day to talk about the groundbreaking detection of gravitational waves and the decades of work that led up to it...