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Guðmundur Stefánsson and a team including Professor Joshua Winn have discovered the first Neptune-mass planet known to orbit a very low mass star—a star barely massive enough to be considered to be a star. More info: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Figure credit: Penn State University

Jamey Szalay, a Research Scholar with @pu_astro was awarded the Early Career Achievement Medal from @nasa for his work on "the analysis of JADE science data, including contributions to auroral and moon-magnetosphere interaction science.”
Congratulations, Jamey!

The Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University has joined the WIYN! Learn more here: web.astro.princeton.edu/news/princeton…

Professor @JoshWinn314 is publishing, "The Little Book of Exoplanets" on July 11th!  The book, written for the general public, is a concise and accessible introduction to exoplanets that explains the cutting-edge science behind recent discoveries. More info in bio.

A beautiful day two of Strauss Lupton Fest!