2021 Senior Honor Thesis Schedule and Zoom Information
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As seen from Earth supernove remnant spans a region of sky more than 40 times the size of a full moon, astronomer Robert Fesen and his colleagues report.
April 07, 2021
A cloud of expanding gas in space is the largest supernova remnant ever seen in the sky, a new study confirms. The Milky Way has some 300...
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Professor Elisabeth Newton co-leads a team that has found a new planetary system.
February 17, 2021
A newly discovered planetary system will provide researchers with the rare chance to study a group of growing planets, according to research co-led by Dartmouth.
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Physics and Astronomy Course Offerings - Summer, Fall 2022
November 20, 2020
Updated Summer 2022 Offerings, multi-year planning chart, and library resources for independent research in Physics and Astronomy
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Timekeeping in superposition
October 25, 2020
Research from Dartmouth College, Saint Anselm College and Santa Clara University reveals new time dilation phenomenon using superposition that can impact timekeeping in high-precision clocks.
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Physics and Astronomy Faculty Named to Endowed Chairs
October 08, 2020
Professors Barrett Rogers and Lorenza Viola named to endowed chairs.
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Professor Lynch selected to give the prestigious Marcel Nicolet Lecture
October 06, 2020
2020 AGU Section Awardees and Named Lecturers were announced on Sept. 30. Our very own Professor Professor Kristina Lynch was selected to give the prestigious Marcel Nicolet Lecture.as selected to give the prestigious Marcel Nicolet Lecture.
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Dartmouth Space Physics proposal ARCS selected by NASA
August 31, 2020
NASA funding will further the study of the mission led by Professor Kristina Lynch.
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2020 Workshop hosted virtually at Dartmouth
July 26, 2020
The 2020 New England Theoretical Cosmology, Gravity and Fields workshop was virtually hosted at Dartmouth on July 21st.
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Professor Ryan Hickox on a Major Astronomical Discovery
July 16, 2020
In June 2020, astrophysicists in the International LIGO-Virgo Collaboration discovered that there had been a collision between two objects in deep space. Ryan Hickox, professor of physics and astronomy, talks about the discovery and its implications for the field of astrophysics.
