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View ArticleHave major mergers lost their driver’s license?
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View ArticleGravitational Lensing in the Canary Islands
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View ArticleThe strength of weak lensing
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View ArticleNo jets in the Galactic center?
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View ArticleExploding diamonds in the sky
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View ArticleWhy I left research for education
I love teaching. About a month ago, I decided to leave astronomy research to pursue only education. For the year leading up to this decision, I struggled against adding to the statistic that women...
View ArticleDigging up “red nuggets” in local elliptical galaxies
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View ArticleCUWiP Application Deadline *this Friday*!
The application deadline for the 2014 Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) is *this Friday*, November 1. These are three-day regional conferences for undergraduate physics majors,...
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