Happy to win the Princeton Astro Ping Pong tournament 2024! Thanks to PrincetonAstro for organizing this fun (and a bit competitive) event.

I was told that this was a tradition here and John Bahcall was the champion.

Join us March 16 for a free talk in the Planetarium by guest speaker Dr. Charlotte Ward of Princeton University. Dr. Ward will talk about one of the hottest topics in modern astronomy - supermassive black holes! Registration link: forms.office.com/g/0vJ0yXMrBC

Juno's observations of H2+ and O2+ from the dissociation of Europa's icy surface infer an O2 production rate lower than previously thought. This finding suggests that the paths to habitability of Europa's internal ocean are narrower. Szalay et al.: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Research led by #PrincetonU 's Jamey Szalay found that while Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, generates 1000 tons of oxygen everyday, the number is much less than scientists previously believed. cbsn.ws/3PbI2tX (via CBS News)

Ready for spring, Trenton? This month's speakers are Prof. Jo Dunkley and Shaunak Modak, who will be talking about their work on the early universe and our galaxy! Also, come out this month to get FREE eclipse glasses! 😎

We are honoring #NASmember James Stone of Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) with the 2024 James Craig Watson Medal for his leading contributions to computational astrophysics. Congratulations! Read about his achievements: bit.ly/watson-medal-2… #NASaward #astrophysics #astronomy

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded its highest honor — the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship — to #PrincetonU astrophysicist Neta Bahcall, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy.

Congratulations! 💫 bit.ly/48r3IK0

The 2024 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, celebrating a career of eminence in astronomical research, goes to Neta Bahcall (Princeton University). aas.org/grants-and-pri…

Please join Joshua Winn at Princeton Public Library, NJ this Thursday (Dec 7) from 7-8 PM EST for a talk about his recently published book, The Little Book of Exoplanets, with a book signing to follow. This event is free and open to the public.

For more details, visit: hubs.ly/Q02bRDNB0

Guðmundur Stefánsson and a team including Professor Joshua Winn have discovered the first Neptune-mass planet known to orbit a very low mass star—a star barely massive enough to be considered to be a star. More info: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Figure credit: Penn State University

Thanks so much to everyone who came out last month! Join us again this month on Wednesday 10/18 at TrentonSocial for two fun talks about the science fact and fiction of life in the universe and exoplanets from Erin Flowers (Princeton) and Josh WInn (Princeton)!

We're back! Join us this Wednesday 9/20 at TrentonSocial for two great talks from Charlotte Ward (Princeton) and Roohi Dalal (Princeton)!

Congratulations to Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox and Marko Simonović. They win the New Horizons in Physics Prize for their work on the large-scale structure of the cosmos. breakthroughprize.org/News/83
Simons Foundation Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Università di Firenze Columbia University

I gave a colloquium Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and PrincetonAstro about all the cool stuff we are doing in LIGO at Flatiron CCA and Stony Brook University with gravitational wave cosmology and black hole ringdowns. Check it out if you want to see what we’re up to: youtube.com/watch?v=yet7Ep…

Jamey Szalay, a Research Scholar with @pu_astro was awarded the Early Career Achievement Medal from @nasa for his work on 'the analysis of JADE science data, including contributions to auroral and moon-magnetosphere interaction science.”
Congratulations, Jamey!

The Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University has joined the WIYN! Learn more here: web.astro.princeton.edu/news/princeton…

Professor Josh Winn is publishing, 'The Little Book of Exoplanets' on July 11th!  The book, written for the general public, is a concise and accessible introduction to exoplanets that explains the cutting-edge science behind recent discoveries. More info in bio.

Cheers 🥂 to Princeton's 2022-23 Ivy+ Provost Leadership Fellows for wrapping up their terms + the Faculty Advancement Network Institute!
👏Jennifer Rexford
👏Greg Scholes Princeton Chemistry
👏Howard Stone @eprinceton
👏Michael Strauss PrincetonAstro
👏Herman Verlinde PrincetonPhysics
facultyadvancementnetwork.org/institute-on-i…

Academic family picture taken at the Strauss Lupton Fest with five generations of cosmologists: Jim Peebles - Marc Davis - Michael Strauss (my advisor) - Michael's academic siblings and students - the next generation. #straussluptonfest PrincetonAstro

A beautiful day two of Strauss Lupton Fest!