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

  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

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