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An artist's conception of the shock breaking out of a red supergiant star. The shock is caused by the collapse of the core of the star and initiates a type II supernova explosion.
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Notre Dame logo constructed from 47 individual CO molecules arranged on a copper sheet, from the lab of Prof. Kenjiro Gomes. The logo is only 12 nanometers across. Orange regions are electron waves scattered off the dark CO molecules.
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Geneva, Switzerland: Lowering of a completed segment of the CMS detector into its underground cavern. The completed instrument is now recording collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Image credit: J.C. Howk, K. Rueff (Notre Dame), NASA/ESA, LBTO
Notre Dame astronomers are using images of the spiral galaxy NGC 4302 to study the impact that exploding stars have on gas and dust in spiral galaxies.
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High-temperature superconducting YBCO levitating above a magnetic track due to vortex pinning
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded 5 MV accelerator represents a major equipment upgrade for the nuclear research group.
Events
- REU Physics Olympics
- Tue Jun 12, 2018 • 9:00AM - 4:00PM
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- Gathering to Honor and Celebrate Prof. Bruce Bunker's Career
- Sat Jun 23, 2018
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- Physics Colloquium: Dr. Caroline Morley, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 • 4:00PM - 5:00PM
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Faculty Spotlight
Michael Wiescher
Freimann Professor
Michael Wiescher has been elected into Academy of Europe.
Mark Caprio
Associate Professor
Prof. Mark Caprio has been selected to serve as an Associate Editor, in the area of Nuclear Theory, for the European Physical Journal A: Hadrons and Nuclei.
Peter Garnavich
Professor
In a paper published in Nature Astronomy, Peter Garnavich and colleagues from several universities and institutes, including the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, described one of the fastest FELTs (Fast-Evolving Luminous Transients) to date, captured by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope in 2015. It exhibited what Garnavich described as a “the most beautiful light curve we will ever get for a fast transient.”
Umesh Garg
Professor
Prof. Umesh Garg has been selected to receive the 2018 Faculty Award from the Office of the Provost at the University of Notre Dame.
