GROWTH students and postdocs at the Palomar Observatory in California joined remotely a large audience in the Nehru Planetarium in Mumbai, India to give them a glimpse of what real astronomers do during an interactive presentation led by GROWTH co-investigator Varun Bhalerao.
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GROWTH astronomers from around the world mobilized multiple observatories to peek at the sky region of the newest gravitational wave event detected by LIGO.
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Five undergraduate students from across the USA will spread around the world this summer to get a taste of global science.
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Astronomers find magnified "standard candle" in the sky, leading the way to more precise measurements of the expansion rate of our universe.
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A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between GROWTH and the Astrophysics Research Institute at the Liverpool John Moores University, making it the 14th partner in the GROWTH scientific collaboration.
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An award by the Research Association for Science Advancement will boost the exploration of the uncharted infrared transient sky and look for answers to puzzling questions like "Can dust exists around novae?"
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Using an array of telescope facilities around the world, an international team of astronomers, among them many GROWTH scientists, recorded the fading light from a supernova – a violent explosion before a star dies - just hours after it occurred in a galaxy in the Pegasus constellation.
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We interview GROWTH co-investigator Varun Bhalerao who recently joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay as a faculty member. We ask him about astrophysics, the journey from PhD to faculty and little treats that will make his daily work a bit more enjoyable. Yes, Mumbai street food!
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GROWTH is funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant No 1545949. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
