April 2024 News

Hidden within this deep sky image (left) is UMa3/U1, a tiny group of stars (right) in orbit around the Milky Way. Credit: CFHT - S. Smith (left), S. Gwyn (right)
April 8, 2024
If confirmed as a galaxy, the system would be the faintest galaxy ever discovered — and may suggest that many others remain to be discovered. Yale astronomers have helped...
April 5, 2024
On April 3, Kidae Shin successfully defended the thesis “MBE-grown Thin Films for Novel Applications: From Single Atomic Layer Ferroelectrics to Isotopically Pure Quantum...
April 5, 2024
Congratulations to Yale Physics graduate students Aaron Greenberg, Andrew Neely, and Carlton Smith, and undergraduate student Rose Powers; who were each awarded a 2024...
Christopher Lindsay and Michael Faison (Photo by Allie Barton)
April 5, 2024
Visitors to Yale’s Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium on Monday, April 8 will see the moon cover 91% of the sun (weather permitting). Next week, when a total solar...
April 3, 2024
Yale Physics welcomes Jake Schaffer, postgraduate associate. Schaffer is a member of Meg Urry’s group in the field of astrophysics & cosmology. Schaffer states, “My...