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Welcome to @NorthwesternU's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics! Celebrating 15 years of CIERA!

1800 Sherman Ave, 8th Floor ciera.northwestern.edu Joined March 2013

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CIERA @NUCIERA 4d

“Planets are a million times fainter than their stars.” 🪐 CIERA’s Rodrigo Ferrer-Chavez and Jason Wang built a “digital twin” of JWST to remove starlight glare, boosting planet-detection sensitivity up to 15x. Published in @Nature. Read more: bit.ly/4zD1p4l

ciera.northwestern.edu Hidden planet emerges from the glare A new technique developed by CIERA members Rodrigo Ferrer-Chavez and Jason Wang cuts through the glare of starlight in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images, revealing a giant planet that standard...

CIERA @NUCIERA Oct 23

This month’s Ciera Astronomer Evening is coming up next Friday, October 30!

Join us for an engaging talk and the opportunity to look through Northwestern’s historic telescope. We look forward to seeing you there!

CIERA @NUCIERA Oct 22

Another one in the books! About 500 people joined us in Cahn Auditorium for CIERA's Annual Public Lecture with Prof. Sara Seager and the search for life beyond Earth. Read the recap and watch the lecture: bit.ly/4i0j2Vg

CIERA @NUCIERA Oct 9

Webb measured the distance to the most distant fast radio burst seen to date. CIERA’s Wen-fai Fong and former student Alexa Gordon are co-authors, and Northwestern’s MMT imaging helped pave the way for Webb. bit.ly/4jOqu72

science.nasa.gov Webb Measures Distance to Farthest Fast Radio Burst, Suggesting Origin - NASA Science First discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts are enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio emission from the distant universe. Their origin remains

CIERA @NUCIERA Sep 25

Congrats to CIERA's Adam Miller, named a 2026 NSF-Simonyi Scholar, one of just 24 nationwide! The distinction recognizes contributions to Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time. bit.ly/3TPxVQY