MSUM Physics & Astronomy Seminar Series: Student Summer Internship Presentations

Friday, Oct. 26 | 3-3:50 p.m. | Hagen Hall 325 Isobel Snellenberger and Adam Kline, Preparing to Observe TESS Exoplanet Candidates: The purpose of this project was to prepare the equipment at the Feder Observatory at the Minnesota State University Moorhead Regional Science Center to be able to observe exoplanet candidates identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). To calibrate our […]

A Stellar Night

Physics and astronomy department captures day-old supernova Jan. 22 was a stellar night for MSUM’s physics and astronomy department. Professor Juan Cabanela, physics and astronomy, and physics majors Nathan Heidt, Laura Herzog, Michael Meraz, and Beau Scheving, made a trek to the Paul P. Feder Observatory in an attempt to capture images of a day-old supernova. The supernova, located in […]