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  1. Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates remarkable Americans — all naturalized citizens — who have enriched and strengthened our democracy through their actions and contributions.

    Priyamvada Natarajan and Akiko Iwasaki
  2. Yale astronomers show how the long-term evolution of binary star systems with two planets and two stars can produce something rare: double hot Jupiters.

    AI-generated illustration of a "hot Jupiter," a large, intensely hot planet about the size of Jupiter or Saturn. Image credit: Michael Helfenbein
  3. In a new study, Yale's Priyamvada Natarajan and other astronomers predict the new Roman telescope will elevate the ability to study dark matter.

    This image shows a simulated observation from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with an overlay of its Wide Field Instrument’s field of view. More than 20 gravitational lenses, with examples shown at left and right, are expected to pop out in every one of Roman’s vast observations. Science: NASA, Bryce Wedig (Washington University in St. Louis), Tansu Daylan (Washington University in St. Louis) Image: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
  4. A Yale-led research team offers a detailed look at the inner workings of a “jellyfish” galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years away.

    A Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4858, showing the stellar tendrils extending north from the barred spiral disk. The cold molecular gas in NGC 4858, seen by the ALMA radio telescope with its “bunny ear” inner tail, is shown in orange.
  5. Binary star systems may offer a novel view of planet formation across the universe, a Yale research team says.

     Illustration of a binary star system, with a yellow star depicted in the upper left corner of the image, and a blue star depicted in the lower right. Image credit: The European Space Agency,
  6. Natarajan has also been honored with a 2025 Suffrage Science Award from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in the UK for her pioneering contributions to astrophysics.

    Priyamvada Natarajan
  7. A Yale-led research group has discovered “Bullseye,” a galaxy with nine rings that may help astronomers better understand galaxy evolution and dark matter.

    LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth. Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale)
  8. Yale’s Priyamvada Natarajan has won a prestigious astrophysics prize for her seminal work on the unseen world of black holes.

    Priyamvada Natarajan
  9. An international research team, including Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum, has discovered a trio of supermassive “Red Monster” galaxies in the early universe.

    Image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope
  10. Astrophysicist Marla Geha’s new Yale Online course about rocket science is, ahem, skyrocketing in popularity.

    Marla Geha