Category Archives: News

Congratulations to Fabienne and Keivan and our erstwhile colleague Josh Pepper for the Bastien et al. article just published in Nature!   Nature News and Views article link:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7463/full/500405a.html full article link:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7463/full/nature12419.html and the Vanderbilt news release article:http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/08/surface-gravity-of-stars/?utm_source=vuhomepage&utm_medium=newsbox&utm_campaign=stassun-gravity-stars

Congratulating Nathan De Lee on being selected for a faculty position at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK).

Congratulating Joey on the acceptance of his first-author paper, “Occultation of the T Tauri Star RW Aurigae A by Its Tidally Disrupted Disk” by the Astronomical Journal. Congrats to Joey, and thanks especially to Josh Pepper for his supervision and … Continue reading →

In order to understand how magnetic fields work on low mass M dwarf stars, Vanderbilt astronomer, Leslie Hebb, enlisted help from a team of amateur astronomers around the world to support her spectroscopic observations of the eclipsing binary, YY Gem, … Continue reading →

Check the Research News @ Vanderbilt: Engineer, astronomer and geologist receive NSF Faculty Early Career Development awards

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) has released its ninth data release DR9, which has the largest-ever 3-D map of massive galaxies and distant black holes. Vanderbilt University is part of the SDSS-III collaboration. Click Here to check the … Continue reading →

The Vanderbilt Research News page has an announcement about the first discoveries from the KELT project: “Extremely little” telescope discovers pair of odd planets

Professor of Astronomy David Weintraub wanted his students to remember more of what they learned in his introductory class than the answers to typical questions on a quiz show. That was a strong impetus for his book How Old Is The Universe? Continue reading →

Watch video from the November 2 Thinking Out of the Lunchbox event. Vicki Greene, professor of Physics and Astronomy, spoke on “Newton’s Unfinished Business.” Continue reading →

The discovery of the three smallest planets yet orbiting a distant star, which was announced today at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society, has an unusual connection to Barnard’s star, one of the Sun’s nearest neighbors. Continue reading →