Darryl Seligman
Darryl Z. Seligman completed his undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Physics at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. He completed his Ph.D. at Yale University in Astronomy in 2020, and was awarded the Yale University Dirk Brouwer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis. He was the TC Chamberlin Fellow at the University of Chicago Department of the Geophysical Sciences after completing his Ph.D. He is currently a Simonyi-NSF Scholar at Cornell University, an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship award made in recognition of significant contributions to Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
Latest articles by Darryl Seligman
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Why we're one step closer to understanding how Earth got its oceans (op-ed)
By Darryl Seligman published
Earth may have gotten some of its water from 'dark comets,' and the forthcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory could uncover key clues about these mysterious cosmic bodies.
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Could the solar system be teeming with interstellar objects? We'll soon find out (op-ed)
By Darryl Seligman published
With JWST and other telescopes, we now have the tools to tell the difference between an intelligent visitor and an interstellar 'dark comet' like 'Oumuamua. Let's not get fooled.