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UA Physics in the News

  • HEP Seminar – Prof. Makoto Natsuume (KEK, Tsukuba) – Spring 2023
  • Looking for interstellar dust, finding gravitational lens with JWST
  • UA Researchers Contribute to Startup of Dark Matter Detector

Category: Astronomy

Looking for interstellar dust, finding gravitational lens with JWST

  • October 7th, 2022

From the galaxy zoo blog entry by UA Professor Bill Keel: “In our first looks at the JWST data, something else became obvious. Near the core of the elliptical galaxy

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Categories: Astronomy, News Feature

UA Gamma-Ray Group Funded to Improve the Optical Observation Capabilities of the VERITAS Telescope Array

  • August 23rd, 2021

Dr. Marcos Santander, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and his work with the VERITAS gamma-ray observatory in Arizona. The VERITAS gamma-ray observatory in southern Arizona is an array of

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Categories: Astronomy, News Feature

UA Contributes to Unprecedented Observations of Black Hole

  • April 14th, 2021

From the UA News Center | Astrophysics researchers at The University of Alabama contributed to a global effort to give unparalleled insight into a black hole and the system it

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Categories: Astronomy, News Feature

Antimatter Neutrino from Space Distinguished from Normal Matter Neutrino for First Time Using Unique Process

  • March 10th, 2021

From the UA News Center | Two researchers from The University of Alabama are part of an international project that detected a cosmic interaction never observed before, but predicted 60

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Categories: Astronomy, News Feature, Physics

UA astronomers release virtual public night videos during pandemic

  • June 16th, 2020

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Categories: Astronomy, News Feature, Physics

UA Assists in Detection of Crab Nebula Using Innovative Telescope

  • June 4th, 2020

From the UA News Center | Researchers at The University of Alabama are part of an international team of scientists that used a new prototype telescope to detect energetic gamma

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Categories: Astronomy, News Feature, Physics Tags: astroparticle, particle astrophysics

UA Gamma-ray Astrophysics Group Awarded Grant for Work on Sources of Gamma-rays, Neutrinos, and Gravitational Waves

  • August 9th, 2019

The recent discovery of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources has opened new windows of exploration to the Universe. These observations, combined with sensitive electromagnetic measurements with space-

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Categories: Astronomy, News Feature Tags: gamma-ray group, research

NSF awards full funding of IceCube neutrino detecter upgrade involving UA

  • July 22nd, 2019

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Categories: Astronomy, News Feature, Physics

UA hosts the Southeastern US site for the APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics

  • January 15th, 2019

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Categories: Astronomy, News Feature, Physics

IceCube neutrino detector collaboration involving UA funded for upgrade

  • October 5th, 2018

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