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Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Welcome to the Rutgers Department of Physics and Astronomy. Our research and education missions cover a vast extent. With our research we aim to advance knowledge about the physical world through measurement, observation, simulation, and theory. Our teaching mission is designed for the needs of non-science majors, engineering or medical students, majors planning on a career in research or indeed any student interested in how the world works!

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Rutgers Astrophysicist Helps Decode One of the Universe’s Strangest Explosions

(Dec 7, 2025)

Huei Sears, a postdoctoral researcher in our department is studying GRB 250702B, a long gamma-ray burst that lasted hours instead of less than a minute that is typical.  Read more about research being done on GRB 250702B at Rutgers Today.

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