CSUN Prof’s Research Efforts May Solve Solar Mystery in the Sun’s layers
Using the world’s most powerful ground-based solar telescope, astronomers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at California State University…
To Infinity and Beyond: Alumna Christine Hirst Soars as an Astronomy Teacher
Over the past three years, Christine Hirst ’12 (Science Education) has soared through the sky aboard NASA’s SOFIA Infrared Observatory…
CSUN Student Helps Pick the Spot for Mars Touchdown
On Nov. 26, California State University, Northridge student Heather Lethcoe watched in awe as NASA’s InSight lander approached the dusty, clay-red surface…
CSUN Astronomy Prof and NASA Colleagues Show Disk Patterns in Space Can Form Without Planets
Peering far out into the universe, astronomers and astrophysicists look for markers — indicators such as patterns in disks of…
CSUN Alumnus Helped Develop Engines for NASA to Send Men to the Moon
Don Bostrom, at the time a recent graduate of California State University, Northridge — then known as San Fernando Valley State College…
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