MSUM’s Society of Physics Students earns Outstanding Chapter Recognition by Professional Association
Honor marks the eighth time MSUM’s SPS chapter has been recognized for its excellence.
Mara DeRung, MSUM student, presents poster about astronomy education that the Annual Meeting of the AAVSO
Mara DeRung, a Sustainability major and Astronomy minor, presented a poster at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, held Nov 2-4 in Boston, MA. Her presentation “Exoplanet Coding Revisions and Exo-Planet Candidate data” described work done at MSUM over the last three years to make analysis of data taken in support of a NASA […]
MSUM student Emily Watson talked about measurement of the Blazhko effect at the Annual Meeting of the AAVSO
Emily Watson, a student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, gave a talk at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, held Nov 2-4 in Boston, MA. Her presentation “Analysis of the Blazhko Effect in the Star EY UMa,” discussed preliminary measurements of the period of long-term changes in the amplitude of pulsation of […]
Abby Moen, MSUM student, presents new measurements of period change in a variable star at the Annual Meeting of the AAVSO
Abby Moen, a student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, gave a talk at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, held Nov 2-4 in Boston, MA. Her presentation “Period change updates for δ Scuti variable DY Her,” discussed changes in the pulsation period of the variable star DY Her. She combined measurements taken […]
MSUM Student Tanner Weyer presents research on new variable stars at Annual Meeting of the AAVSO
Tanner Weyer, a student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, gave a talk at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, held Nov 2-4 in Boston, MA. His presentation “An Unfortunately Constant Star Field,” was about a search for variable stars in a patch of the sky in which there are no known variable […]