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UNC Student Finds Newborn Planet in Warped System
November 20, 2024 Planet-forming disks are a natural outcome of angular momentum conservation as molecular clouds collapse to form stars. During this collapse, the clouds begin to spin faster, eventually flattening into a disk shape. These “protoplanetary disks” are … Read more
Unveiling a Lightweight Giant: JWST Reveals the True Nature of a Young Exoplanet
December 20, 2024 A recent study led by graduate student Pa Chia Thao has unveiled exciting new findings on a 17-million-year-old exoplanet, HIP 67522 b, using cutting-edge data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Originally classified as a … Read more
New Horizon’s Distinguished Speaker’s Visit – Professor Christian Weinheimer
We are excited to announce that Professor Christian Weinheimer from the Institute for Nuclear Physics at the University of Münster will be visiting the UNC Department of Physics and Astronomy and the CosMS Institute. He will be delivering a colloquium … Read more
New Horizon’s Distinguished Speaker’s Visit – Professor Edward Rocky Kolb
Professor Edward (Rocky) Kolb, the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, will visit UNC and CosMS Institute on March 27th and 28th, as the New Horizon’s Distinguished Speaker. And on the … Read more
The CoSMS Institute unites scientists to advance our understanding of the universe. Find out about how institute scientists are studying neutrinos nearly a mile below the earth’s surface.
Institute for Cosmology, Subatomic Matter & Symmetries
Raw Science features the Majorana Demonstrator