Category Archives: Public Outreach

HPF Science Featured on AAS Nova

Posted on October 2, 2020 by Paul M Robertson

Our recent HPF study of starspot signals from rapidly-rotating M dwarfs was featured today on AAS Nova.  AAS Nova highlights the most interesting new scientific results published in the American Astronomical Society’s family of research journals.  Congratulations to the HPF … Continue reading →

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NEID, HPF’s sister spectrograph

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Gudmundur Kari Stefansson

Recently, the HPF team was selected to build the NEID spectrograph, the next generation spectrograph for the 3.5m WIYN telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, located on the Tohono O’odham reservation in Arizona. The word neid means ‘to see’ in the language of the Tohono … Continue reading →

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Astrofest 2014

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Gudmundur Kari Stefansson

Earlier this month (July 9 – July 12) was Penn State’s 16th Astrofest, a four night festival of Astronomy and Astrophysics were Penn State Astronomy students, faculty, and friends gave talks, presentations, planetarium shows, and various other hands-on activities and demonstrations. … Continue reading →

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