ASGC gears up to build first collaborative CubeSat to measure gamma-ray bursts
Nov 01, 2018
An effort by Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) members to design and build the first in a planned series of statewide collaborative cube satellites (CubeSats) will be the focus of a workshop Nov. 9 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Educator Training...
NSF EPSCoR and UAH CSPAR director to address NSF as distinguished speaker
Sep 14, 2018
Dr. Gary Zank, NSF EPSCoR CPU2AL director, 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 mission...
Confirmed: Solar Wind Shock Wave Gives Ions a Push
Sep 12, 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 Zank. See the full story here...
Proposal for interstellar mapping probe awarded $496 million grant by NASA
Jul 19, 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 b...
NESSF award funds student’s research into extreme space weather
Jun 18, 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 W...
UAH researchers receive NASA Space Flight Awareness Team Award
May 17, 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 me...
CSPAR's Dr. Pogorelov featured on Newswise.com
Apr 04, 2018
CSPAR's Dr. Nikolai Pogorelov was recently featured on newswise.com - See the article here...
UAH researchers’ supercomputer simulations shed light on the heliospheric interface
Apr 03, 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 Aug...
Washimi and Zank Featured by American Astronomical Society
Mar 15, 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 publishe...
UAH part of team awarded the Rossi Prize for high-energy astrophysics
Jan 31, 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 of...