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Friday, December 19, 2025
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New and exciting activities in the
McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences
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Recent News From McDonnell Center Fellows
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Putting the Moon under a quantum diamond microscope
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In an exercise that shows the potential of quantum sensing, Arts & Sciences researchers used their quantum diamond microscope — a device that runs on a flawed diamond crystal — to measure the magnetic properties of a tiny piece of Moon rock.
Zoltán Váci, a former McDonnell Center Postdoctoral Fellow, is one of the coauthors on a paper recently published in Physical Review Applied.
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PUEO (The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations) is scheduled to launch soon! Once the balloon inflation starts it's a little over an hour until launch. PUEO is hoping to detect very high energy neutrinos interacting with the Antarctic ice.
WashU built the power system and fabricated much of the gondola. Lindsey Lisalda and Richard Bose are currently in Antarctica to prepare it.
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ASTRAL-X X-ray Astronomy School
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Prof. Michael Nowak just spent two weeks in Argentina at the ASTRAL-X X-ray Astronomy School, a workshop for graduate students from Latin-America sponsored by IAU (International Astronomical Union) I-HOW program and COSPAR (Committee on Space Research Capacity Building Workshops.
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He lectured on high energy astrophysics studies utilizing the NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and mentored several students in short analysis projects using data obtained from public astrophysics archives. At the end of the two weeks, the workshop students gave short presentations on what they had learned during the workshop. Participants are then eligible to apply for fellowships to continue the program by participating in 6-week long projects mentored by faculty who participated in the workshops.
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McDonnell Center Fellows in the News
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Recent Publications by McDonnell Center Fellows
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Osborn, N., Walsh, N., Abarr, Q., Binns, W., Bose, R., Braun, D., Dowkontt, P., Israel, M., Labrador, W., Lisalda, L., Murphy, R., Olevitch, M., Rauch, B., Simburger, G., Ward. J., West, A., Zober, W., et al. (2025). SuperTIGER galactic cosmic-ray source abundances for the charge interval 16 ⩽ Z ⩽ 56. Advances in Space Research.
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MCSS Postdoctoral Fellowship Opening
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MCSS is hiring a postdoctoral fellow in the broad field of space sciences. We welcome applicants with interests in Astromaterials, Cosmochemistry, or Meteoritics; Experimental, Theoretical, or Observational Astrophysics; Planetary Science; Particle and Nuclear Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation; and Earth as a Planet. In their application materials, the candidate should describe their research interests and list potential collaborators from among the faculty fellows of the MCSS.
Deadline to apply:
TOMORROW, December 20, 2025.
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| St. Louis Astronomical Society December Meeting
Deana Weibel
Grand Valley State University
TONIGHT, Friday, December 19
7:30pm, McDonnell 162
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Compiled and edited by Alison Verbeck. Please send any contributions to alison@wustl.edu.
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