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Research

Research projects in the Department.

Project 1640: An instrument to image extrasolar planets
Star Formation and Feedback: How do stars form in the Universe?
Stellar Populations & Evolution: Mapping the closest one million stars to the Sun.
Lyot Project: Building telescopic instruments to directly image planets beyond our Solar System.
The Cosmic Evolution Survey: Probing the formation and evolution of galaxies over the history of the Universe.
Gemini Planet Imager: An adaptive optics instrument for the Gemini Telescope.

Computational, telescope, and laboratory resources.

Computational Resources: Department members have on-site access to several computer clusters, GRAPE boards, and share time on the Nation's fastest scientific supercomputers.
Instrumentation Lab: The astrophysics lab builds instruments to image extrasolar planets.

Extrasolar Planets: Searching for New Worlds: science and techniques behind the study of planets orbiting nearby stars.
Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission: The latest images of Saturn from the Cassini mission.
Einstein: Exhibit on the life and times of Albert Einstein.

Hayden Planetarium: Includes the Space Theater and the Big Bang Theater; everything inside the sphere.
Scales of the Universe: Explore the scales of the cosmos, from the largest objects we know down to atoms.
Cosmic Pathway: Walk the 13.7-billion-year history of the Universe.
Hall of the Universe: Greater detail about astrophysics through interactive exhibits.
Full Moon: Apollo Mission Photographs of the Lunar Landscape: Photos taken by NASA's Apollo astronauts.