Theodore Roosevelt National Park held its annual Dakota Nights Astronomy Festival over Labor Day weekend. Dr. Matt Craig, Department of Physics and Astronomy, presented one of the evening keynote talks — about the impact of satellite constellation on astronomy — and an afternoon talk about similarities between the surface of Mars and the badlands.
There will be a public astronomy night on Fri, Sep 10 at 8PM at the MSUM Regional Science Center. It is jointly hosted by the Fargo-Moorhead Astronomy Club, the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the MSUM Planetarium and the MSUM Regional Science Center. We should get good views of the moon, Jupiter, Saturn and more! Regional Science Center location/directions: https://www.mnstate.edu/academics/colleges-schools/cshe/science-center/directions/ […]
Matt Craig, Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, was recently elected to a one year term on the Astropy Coordination Committee, the governing body for the Astropy project. The project provides foundational software for the astronomical community, supporting research at institutions across the country. The project was award the Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award for Astronomy in […]
The International Astronomical Union announced this past summer that an asteroid has been named for Dr. Walter Worman, Professor Emeritus in the Department in Physics and Astronomy. Dr. Worman was nominated for the honor by former student Dr. Sherry Fieber-Beyer, an Assistant Professor in the Space Studies department at the University of North Dakota. The statement released by the IAU […]
Brian Wisenden (Biosciences Department) and Ananda Shastri (Physics and Astronomy Department) published a peer-reviewed research paper in Behavioural Processes with four MSUM undergraduates Alex Seigel, Izzy DeVriendt, Savannah Hohenstein and Mark Lueders. The citation for research paper is: Seigel AR, DeVriendt IG, Hohenstein SJ, Lueders MB, Shastri A, Wisenden BD. 2021. Tone deaf: association of an auditory stimulus with predation […]