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Rainer Weiss: 50 years of LIGO and gravitational waves

October 6, 2022
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Caption:“The Hunt for Planet B” team celebrates their Emmy Award at the Palladium Times Square in New York City.

Documentary featuring Professor Sara Seager wins Emmy Award

October 5, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
The huge sun-like star, left, looks like a blue balloon that turns orange as it’s being sucked into the tiny white dwarf’s orbit. The white dwarf looks like a mini-galaxy, with a blue center and orange rings. The background is black with tiny stars.

Astronomers find a “cataclysmic” pair of stars with the shortest orbit yet

October 5, 2022
Categories: Research, Pappalardo Fellows, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
JWST's First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology

JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology

September 14, 2022
Categories: In The News, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Deepto Chakrabarty named head of the Department of Physics

August 29, 2022
Categories: Education, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Artist's concept of the probe after being deployed by the spacecraft toward Venus. Courtesy of Rocket Lab

The first private mission to Venus will have just five minutes to hunt for life

August 29, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Artist depiction of Interstellar Probe, with its dish facing upward.

The Long Shot

July 28, 2022
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni, Alumni, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
CHIME telescope against starry sky with streaks of light

Astronomers detect a radio “heartbeat” billions of light-years from Earth

July 13, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
an undulating, translucent star-forming region in the Carina Nebula is shown in this Webb image, hued in ambers and blues; foreground stars with diffraction spikes can be seen, as can a speckling of background points of light through the cloudy nebula

‘I’m beyond stoked.’ For local astronomers, first Webb telescope images elicit awe, wonder, and relief.

July 13, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
side-by-side views of Southern Ring planetary nebula as seen by Webb telescope (NIRCam, left; MIRI, right) against black backdrop of space; a bright star appears at center in both images, surrounded by an undulating ring of gas

Meet MIT astrophysicist who will get to use Webb deep space telescope

July 12, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
graphic of multiplanet system with satellite

Astronomers discover a multiplanet system nearby

June 15, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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American Astronomical Society honors seven MIT affiliates with 2022 awards, prizes

June 8, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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