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Dr. Nikolai Pogorelov

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

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...


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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...


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UAH to host public discussion about multi-messenger astronomy on Nov. 20

Nov 16, 2017

UAH will host a free science discussion, "Multi-messenger Astronomy: A New Era in Space Science," at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 20, in the Student Services Building, room 112. ...


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UAH team part of co-detection that confirms the origin of short gamma-ray bursts

Oct 16, 2017

A gravitational-wave discovery on Aug. 17 is the first to produce light detected by observatories in space and on the ground. Just 1.7 seconds after the gravitational waves rushed past Earth, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope caught high-ene...


Nikolai Pogorelov

UAH space science professor elected fellow of the American Physical Society

Oct 16, 2017

Dr. Nikolai Pogorelov, a professor in the Department of CSPAR at UAH, has been elected a 2017 fellow of the APS by the APS Council of Representatives upon the recommendation of the Topical Group on Plasma Astrophysics. ...


Gary Zank

UAH leading effort that secures $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation

Sep 19, 2017

A partnership comprising nine universities in Alabama, including UAH as the lead institution, has been awarded a $20 million, five-year grant by the National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). ...


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Zank awarded the International Space Science Institute’s Johannes Geiss Fellowship

Jun 27, 2017

Dr. Gary Zank, who serves as both chair of the Department of Space Science and the director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research at UAH, has been named the 2017 recipient of the International Space Science Institute’s Johannes Ge...


Bofeng Tang

NASA fellowship will fund UAH space science student’s research on solar wind

Jun 20, 2017

Bofeng Tang, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Space Science at UAH, has received a 2017/2018 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) to fund his research into the transport of electrons and electron heat flux in the solar wind. The pr...


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Gary Zank honored at 2017 NAS Ceremony

May 09, 2017

Dr. Gary P. Zank, director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and chair of the Department of Space Science at UAH, was inducted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) at a ceremony held at the Academy's 154...


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