2018-09-14 14:25:03 UAH CSPAR director to address NSF as distinguished speaker Details Published: 14 September 2018 Dr. Gary Zank, director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and chair of the Department of Space Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), will speak on three current space missions of scientific … 2018-09-12 14:21:11 Confirmed: Solar Wind Shock Wave Gives Ions a Push Details Published: 12 September 2018 Measurements made by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show that shock waves in the solar wind transfer significant energy to ionized interstellar atoms, confirming a decades-old prediction made by our very own Dr. Gary … 2018-08-23 14:58:14 UAH researcher, others get Golden Eagle Award for quick fix to Gamma-ray Burst Monitor anomaly Details Published: 23 August 2018 NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has announced it will present a Golden Eagle Award to Dr. Narayana Bhat, a research scientist at UAH Center for Space Plasma and Astronomic Research … Read more » 2018-07-19 16:04:41 Proposal for interstellar mapping probe awarded $496 million grant by NASA Details Published: 19 July 2018 A team of astrophysicists that includes Dr. Gary Zank, chair of the Department of Space Science and the director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been awarded $496 million … Read more » 2018-06-18 21:26:38 NESSF award funds student’s research into extreme space weather Details Published: 18 June 2018 Talwinder Singh, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Space Science at UAH, has been awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) for the 2018/2019 academic year. His proposal, entitled "Modeling Coronal Mass Ejections in the Solar … Read more » 2018-05-17 17:49:11 UAH researchers receive NASA Space Flight Awareness Team Award Details Published: 17 May 2018 On the morning of August 17, 2017, Rachel Hamburg, a master’s student in the Department of Space Science at UAH, received a text message from a fellow graduate student at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). "He told … Read more » 2018-04-04 21:30:28 CSPAR's Dr. Pogorelov featured on Newswise.com Details Published: 04 April 2018 CSPAR's Dr. Nikolai Pogorelov was recently featured on newswise.com - See the article … 2018-04-03 20:20:38 UAH researchers’ supercomputer simulations shed light on the heliospheric interface Details Published: 03 April 2018 "Three-dimensional Features of the Outer Heliosphere Due to Coupling between the Interstellar and Heliospheric Magnetic Field. V. The Bow Wave, Heliospheric Boundary Layer, Instabilities, and Magnetic Reconnection" originally appeared this past … Read more » 2018-03-15 14:02:26 Washimi and Zank Featured by American Astronomical Society Details Published: 15 March 2018 A paper by CSPAR's Dr's. Haruichi Washimi and Gary Zank were recently featured by AAS Nova, a feature of the American Astronomical Society journals. This website is designed to highlight some of the most interesting recent results being … 2018-01-31 19:23:41 UAH part of team awarded the Rossi Prize for high-energy astrophysics Details Published: 31 January 2018 The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) team was selected by the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society as the 2018 recipient of the Rossi Prize. The team was recognized for their role in the first joint detection … Read more » 1234...67