Astrophysics and space research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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'For the Moon', a short film on Ronald McNair will premier August 5th at the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival...based on Carl McNair's book, 'In the Spirit of Ronald E. McNair: Astronaut.' mvaaff.com/events/event/for-…
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See 3Q: Exploring the universe’s “first light”
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Q: What have astronomers seen of the universe’s “first light”?
Q: What have people learned about how the telescope works in its first year?
Q: What are you hoping to see in the second year of observations?
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NASA’s Webb Proves Galaxies Transformed the Early Universe
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The Webb Telescope: A New Era in Astronomy, Jane Rigby, astrophysicist and JWST operations project scientist explains how astronomers use advanced telescopes, shares a few stories about how the Webb started, and the people who made it a reality.
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Kepler's last planets - exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/175…
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MIT & Canadian astronomers double the number of known repeating FRBs. iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
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O4 run - Gravitational Wave Detectors Start Next Observing Run to Explore the Secrets of the Universe ligo.org/news/images/O4start…
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17 May 2023
The floor is lava! 🌋 Astronomers, including researchers at @MITKavli and @eapsMIT, have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet that may be carpeted with volcanoes nasa.gov/feature/goddard/202…
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Galaxies birthed by dying stars! An international team, including MKI researchers, uses infrared and millimeter-wave bands to reveal the primordial ‘soup’ of synthesized elements leaking from nascent galaxies. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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24 Jan 2023
This South African telescope hopes to see radiation stretched 10 times by cosmic expansion since it was emitted 13.5 billion years ago. So far, it's telling us how galaxies differed in the early universe @UCBerkeley @UCB_Astronomy news.berkeley.edu/2023/01/24…
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European Research Council Synergy Grant Awarded for Gravitational Research to MIT’s Nergis Mavalvala and Collaborators #ERCSyG space.mit.edu/european-resea…
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ALT Nergis Mavalvala, the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics and dean of MIT’s School of Science
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28 Jan 2022
TESS, a NASA mission led and operated by MIT, has identified over 5,000 planet candidates outside of our solar system. newsweek.com/nasa-found-5000…
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Congrats to all the MIT students and faculty who contributed to the @OSIRISREx mission! Scientists from EAPS, @MITAeroAstro @MITKavli and @MITLL, in partnership with @HCObservatory, build an instrument to analyze soil collected from the astroid #Bennu
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ALT The spacecraft, silver with a cone front and two wings, hovers above a grey, rocky surface with a blue background scattered with faint stars.
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36 years ago today, 7 astronauts lost their lives as the Challenger Space Shuttle failed shortly after launch. Among them was Dr. Ron McNair, MIT PhD '76, and the second Black astronaut in space. We remember and honor him today & every day.
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MITKavli retweeted
7 Oct 2021
Excited to finally share a new paper on the kilonova discovery potential of the Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER): arxiv.org/abs/2110.01622
with Danielle Frostig, @gmo_omg, Viraj Karambelkar, @sasomao and others @MITKavli, @PMACaltech, and @IJCLab
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“What we find exciting about our result is that to some level of confidence we can say binary neutron stars are probably more of a goldmine than neutron star-black hole mergers,” says lead author Hsin-Yu Chen, a postdoc in @MITKavli news.mit.edu/2021/neutron-st…
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3 Nov 2021
Mark Vogelsberger: Simulating galaxy formation for clues to the universe physics.mit.edu/?p=10691 @ScienceMIT @MITKavli #astrophysics #IllustrisTNG
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MITKavli retweeted
15 Nov 2021
A huge thank you to @SkypeScientist for connecting our budding astronomers with a real life astronomer from @MITKavli today. Thanks for answering all of our space questions, Dr. Günther!!
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Happy #GravitationalWavesDay!!! #OTD in 2015, at 09:50:45 UTC, @LIGO made the first ever detection of #GravitationalWaves from the collision of two #BlackHoles more than a billion light years away. Read the amazing story of #GW150914 in our @LIGO magazine ligo.org/magazine/LIGO-magaz…
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