Instead, she's studying special relativity and astrophysics — by choice.
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That led to the invitation to David N. Spergel, a Princeton astrophysics professor, to start a similar effort for astrophysics, and a third group focusing on materials science is in the works.
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"It's exciting because the science is obviously not just of national interest, but international interest," Philippa Browning, professor of astrophysics at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics in the United Kingdom, told Gizmodo.
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The researchers' results will be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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The findings were presented in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12.
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He was offered a post teaching physics, astronomy and astrophysics.
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The findings were published Thursday in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson 5.
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A gravitational wave detection is currently one of astrophysics' white whales.
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It hopes to see more multimessenger proposals from the astrophysics community.
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The new discovery will be published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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"This will open up another revolution in astrophysics and biology alike."
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The Indian Institute of Astrophysics is working to confirm that claim.
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Their findings published this week in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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Researchers from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group of the UPC and the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics recently developed a new technique that allowed them to measure the mass of a neutron star in a compact binary.
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I first encountered Trimble's work when I was an undergraduate astrophysics major.
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So I turned my attention to liquid xenon for gamma-ray astrophysics.
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Overall, the findings published this week in Astronomy and Astrophysics were promising.
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In astrophysics, the K2 mission has already made discoveries about star clusters.
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"Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" 7 Neil deGrasse Tyson (Norton) 5.
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The findings were published in the January 2016 journal of Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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He was trying to solve the problem of three interacting bodies—astrophysics.
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My research has mainly been in particle physics, cosmology and theoretical astrophysics.
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Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
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He holds a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
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"Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" 7 Neil deGrasse Tyson (Norton) 8.
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Dr. Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester.
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Now that you've dipped your toe into astrophysics — on a Monday, yet!
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"There's biology, molecular biology in there, astrophysics, computer sciences, nanotechnology," McKay exclaims.
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"They have clearly seen something moving," said Shep Doeleman, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who did not participate in what he calls the team's "extraordinary" measurements, which was published this week in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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Both papers detailing the new planet appear in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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QUANTA MAGAZINE: What was your path to astrophysics and ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays?
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Already, the new gravitational-wave data has shaken up the field of astrophysics.
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"Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" 8 Neil deGrasse Tyson (Norton, $18.95) 8.
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JWST has dominated the astrophysics budget at NASA for the last two decades.
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"Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" 2 Neil deGrasse Tyson (Norton, $18.95) 6.
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He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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But Jonathan McDowell, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, thinks Musk's wrong.
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Pérez, now learning English to prepare for the opportunity, wants to explore astrophysics.
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He earned a Ph.D in astrophysics from the University of Oxford in England.
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TESS is sponsored by NASA, as one of its small Astrophysics Explorer missions.
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Their research will be presented in two papers in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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A study of the system was recently published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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Independent observations came from Joey Rodriguez at Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University.
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Illustration: Dr. Mark A. Garlick; Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of TorontoThanks to a quirk of astrophysics, astronomers were able to observe features just tens of kilometers apart near a spinning neutron star located 6,500 light-years away from Earth.
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Marx is relevant, but in the way that, say, Nicolaus Copernicus is to astrophysics.
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)In all, there's been no justice for Sagittarius.
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The details of this work can now be found in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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When the first detection was announced, scientists ushered in a new era of astrophysics.
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If funding holds, WFIRST will be NASA's next big astrophysics venture in the 2020s.
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Thomas Kitching , Reader in Astrophysics, UCL This article was originally published on The Conversation .
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I think it was my father, a science professor at Tufts, who suggested astrophysics.
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One of them was Brian McLeod, astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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The year before that, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics also entered the debate.
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That won't work for earthbound modeling, but we're talking about huge distances in astrophysics.
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It's the same way I feel hearing experts discuss astrophysics, or the nickel defense.
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Martin Rees is an emeritus professor of cosmology and astrophysics at University of Cambridge.
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After reading a book on astrophysics by Lawrence M. Krauss, a theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, she reached him by Skype, and he says he was blown away when this Afghan elementary school dropout began asking him penetrating questions about astrophysics.
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We can also say that these clouds are mostly transparent ('optically thin' in astrophysics parlance).
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But the need to solve the problem is urgent, said professor of astrophysics Steven Desch.
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Bouman is a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, reported the Post.
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Researchers published their findings about this process in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics on Thursday.
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Jonathan McDowell, PhD, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, discovered the answer.
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Researchers published their findings to answer these questions Wednesday in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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Accessories to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military is now in stores.
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"NASA is the worldwide leader in not only space exploration but also astrophysics," he says.
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"Basically it spaghettifies," said James Guillochon, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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The work is a laudable attempt to glam up astrophysics through music, poetry and gadgetry.
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Adhara, meanwhile, is studying English and hopes to study astrophysics at the University of Arizona.
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One of the most elusive questions in astrophysics is why galaxies stop producing new stars.
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"This is a huge day in astrophysics," said U.S. National Science Foundation Director France Cordova.
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A study describing the three planets was published this week in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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Computers have been a fixture for decades in astrophysics and many other fields of science.
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"Astrophysics is our number one domain," says Eric Colson, Stitch Fix's chief algorithms officer emeritus.
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The study detailing the observation was published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics on Wednesday.
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Yet despite their ubiquity, they are also some of the most mysterious substances in astrophysics.
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Liv Boeree is a science communicator and TV host specializing in astrophysics, rationality, and poker.
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My original plan, when I got out of high school, was to go into astrophysics.
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"The planet we found is around one of the quietest stars in the solar neighborhood," Xavier Bonfils, an astronomer at the Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics in Grenoble, France and lead author of a study in Astronomy & Astrophysics detailing the planet's discovery, tells The Verge.
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"That's the fundamental question," Jennifer Yee, astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Gizmodo.
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The new research is detailed in a study recently published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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Lange met Katz, a PhD in theoretical astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, six years ago.
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They opened up whole new fields of knowledge such as high-energy astrophysics and molecular biology.
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The results of the new research were published online July 26 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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"Omfg," Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics physicist Grant Tremblay told Gizmodo in a Twitter direct message.
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He graduated from the University of Texas and received a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Rice University.
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Ramm channelled the chaos into a spectacular personal mythology, drawn from philology, astrophysics, and medieval history.
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Green's son happened to be spending the year at the institute, as a fellow in astrophysics.
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Researchers at the Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory found the properties of the exoplanet "favor its habitability."—Motherboard
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That's according to Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard and Smithsonian.
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Back in 2014 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics jumped into the debate: What is a planet?
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Haro also established the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics to help support science students.
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If scientists continue seeing these events at a steady once-per-week rate, "astrophysics will be transformed forever by the end of the observing run," Vicky Kalogera, director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics at Northwestern University, told Gizmodo in an email.
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To Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil, a Ph.D. candidate at the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, it resembled Hoag's Object.
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The astronomers who authored a new study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics thought it was quite exciting.
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Her career as an astronaut began as she was completing her Ph.D. in astrophysics at Stanford University.
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He was a graduate student in astrophysics at Columbia University at the time, and a new father.
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Determining the precise location or home galaxy of these black hole pairs has multiple advantages for astrophysics.
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Scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics were analyzing samples of the rock provided by the police.
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Deep Sky Companion will be on exhibit at Caltech's Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics through December.
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Consider federal scientists performing experiments in a wide range of fields, from astrophysics to medicine to zoology.
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The astronomers detail their discovery in a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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I'm not trying to equate learning a new game with mastering astrophysics, but it's not easy, either.
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So far, published results (here, here and here) in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics paint an interesting picture.
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"What I like about the galactic center is that you get to see extreme astrophysics," she said.
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She graduated from the University of Chicago, from which she also received a master's degree in astrophysics.
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That year, the allegation got a mention in a blog post by Hontas Farmer, an astrophysics researcher.
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Bridget Falck from the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo in Norway was more cautious.
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These ideas explain only some of the story, according to the paper published recently in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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"This is a fishing expedition," Avi Loeb, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Gizmodo.
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"Because we do astrophysics, we already have these telescopes that cover a huge range of energies," Slatyer said.
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The travellers all came with different scientific backgrounds, from structural biology and astrophysics to geology and marine science.
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GeachGeach's discovery, which has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, has some major implications for astrophysics.
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Source: Swinburne University of Technology Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing Sound waves need a medium to travel through.
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A new NASA program, called Astrophysics Science SmallSat Studies, aims to turn their gaze outward, toward the cosmos.
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Bartos was excited about how these results combine so many different fields, from geoscience to astrophysics to chemistry.
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"This is a new kind of astronomy, this is a new frontier for high-energy astrophysics," he said.
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We ask her about her research in cosmology and astrophysics, and the origins and evolution of the universe.
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"The era of multimessenger astrophysics is here," US National Science Foundation Director France Córdova said in a statement.
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This month, researchers from the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard and Smithsonian published an analysis of those observations.
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The letter has circulated the astrophysics community and was signed by more than 800 scientists around the world.
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"We have seen what we thought was unseeable," said Shep Doeleman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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"We don't know how to explain it with the standard astrophysics that we know and love," said Fialkov.
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And even at elite universities, fewer astrophysics PhDs go on to take postdoctoral fellowships or pursue competitive professorships.
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This is called gravitational redshift, and it's exactly what astronomers observed, and published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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He bounced around (Cornell, Caltech, particle physics, nuclear physics) before landing at Columbia in 2004, in pursuit of astrophysics.
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One researcher not involved in the study, James Guillochon, ITC Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, agreed.
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Using an algorithm developed by Lindy Blackburn, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
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"We were granted a lot of time," astrophysicist Fabrizio Nicastro from the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics told Gizmodo.
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Kauffmann leads the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching with her husband Simon White and two other professors.
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Astrophysics and astronomy are overloaded with metaphors, but, in this case, black hole rain is almost a literal description.
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Ready Player One is $6.99, Fire and Fury is $8.99, and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is $7.77.
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"These type of flagship missions that take a huge chunk of the astrophysics budget present a challenge," he said.
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Over the past few decades, that field has expanded in myriad directions, from astrophysics to space weather to nanotechnology.
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In addition to taking us through the wonders of space, Hubble has made discoveries that affect astronomy and astrophysics.
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"The program is enormously complex," Grant Tremblay, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, tells The Verge.
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Every team took a different approach to this abridgement, picking and programming what they saw as the key astrophysics.
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It helps that axion detection experiments are relatively cheap—CAST is one of the cheapest astrophysics experiments out there.
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This new map's workings are explained in more than 70 different papers, primarily in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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Dig into his podcast to learn about space tourism, comets, and the basics of astrophysics, to name a few.
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In one study, students were shown an engaging animated video about black holes and astrophysics to pique their interest.
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And as astrophysics and astrobiology come together to make these discoveries, we keep learning more about our own home.
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" Sheperd Doeleman, a radio astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, called the work "a tour de force.
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According to the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, a waning gibbous moon is the phase following the full moon.
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He is a successful scientist now, who in addition to his professional obligations teaches astrophysics to at-risk girls.
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Reaction: "We have seen what we thought was unseeable," said Shep Doeleman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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"TESS is helping us explore our place in the universe," said Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters.
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Wolf plans to study astrophysics when he starts college in September, he said (he hasn't decided where just yet).
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Four separate papers detailing the new findings were published Monday in the journals Nature Astronomy and Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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"That's the path Kepler has put us on," said Paul Hertz, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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Typically I'll go to meetings about space, astrophysics, and future missions, and I'm the youngest person in the room.
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Scientists from the National Institute for Astrophysics in Bologna may have found a lake of liquid water on Mars.
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Written in first person present, Catarina's young yet brilliant stream of consciousness belies Suvada's own studies in math and astrophysics.
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The mission was one of the top priorities of the National Research Council's 2010 decadal survey on astronomy and astrophysics.
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But the new study, which has been submitted to the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, could help astronomers find more, Busetti said.
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"I think it's quite an interesting idea," Sownak Bose, postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Gizmodo.
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The new study was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics and led by Martin Lopez-Corredoira, a researcher at IAC.
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"Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" 13 Neil deGrasse Tyson (Norton, $18.95) Compiled by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Lisa Shumaker
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During her winter break at school, she spent time learning the ins and outs of astrophysics, coding, and space junk.
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Almost any undergrad who's taken an introductory astrophysics course has seen Rubin's work to motivate their understanding of dark matter.
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A study published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics recently shares data on Pluto's atmosphere gathered between 1988 and 2016.
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The High School of Music & Art in New York, a masters in astrophysics, a PhD in English, both from Columbia.
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" * Matthew Colless, professor of astronomy & astrophysics at The Australian National University: "Hawking was a great scientist and an inspirational figure.
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Craig was getting his masters degree in astrophysics on the East Coast but would soon move west to join Adam.
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Imagine if you got graded for your performance in Kerbal Space Program as part of your astrophysics class, for instance.
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Mike Cruise, Emeritus Professor of astrophysics and space research, University of Birmingham This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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He is a Youth Qianren Research Professor of astronomy at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University.
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After Dr. Davidson left as director, he returned to research, continuing as a professor in Princeton's astrophysics department until 2011.
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"The signal was extremely weak when it reached Earth, but is already promising a revolution in astrophysics," the committee added.
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How black holes evolve and influence their galaxies remains "an outstanding problem in astrophysics," the researchers said in their paper.
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Astrophysics professor Christian Ott resigned from Caltech in 2017 after an internal investigation found he harassed two female graduate students.
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The discovery by two teams of researchers is detailed in two papers published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics on Monday.
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Yerkes Observatory (now a branch of the University of Chicago's Department of Astronomy) is deemed the birthplace of modern astrophysics.
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The missions—the Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics (Athena) and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)— are both unprecedented.
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"They have a PR embarrassment on their hands," said Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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What role have astrophysicists played in advancing military technology, and how has military research and development in turn benefited astrophysics?
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In 1942 he enrolled in a naval officers' training program at the University of Southern California, where he studied astrophysics.
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Unlike the first section, where neither militarists nor scientists are out of sight for long, astrophysics often goes unmentioned here.
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But the pivotal moment in her education came in 1977 as she was completing her PhD in astrophysics at Stanford.
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But no one with the requisite training in astrophysics and Zen Buddhism could be located in time to provide resuscitation.
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Chorlton, 44, is the administrator of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, a research institute at the University of Wisconsin.
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Astrophysics, and the smaller world of women in science, said farewell to a pioneer and a champion in Vera Rubin.
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The team's work, just published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, suggests gas giants come in two types, with intermediate forms being rare.
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"Imagine that gravitational waves are like thunder," astronomer Philip Cowperthwaite, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said in a statement.
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"We now know there could be more planets than stars," Paul Hertz, NASA's astrophysics division director, said in a news release.
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Very much to my good fortune, I was introduced to a new young professor in the astrophysics department named Doug Finkbeiner.
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Update 12:15pm: We spoke to Gareth Williams, astrophysicist from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, for a little more detail.
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But she is big on Twitter and does work on the boundary between particle physics and astrophysics, mainly investigating dark matter.
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"Now, because of Kepler, what we think about the universe has changed," says Paul Hertz, the astrophysics division director at NASA.
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The paper, which will be published next week in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, proposes one of the most violent collisions possible.
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Several new modeling efforts led by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are now attempting to answer that question.
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"This is the definition of 'sunk cost,'" Grant Tremblay, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, tells The Verge.
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"A lot of people see this as an ethical issue," says J.L. Galache, astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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The simulation, which was described in Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology, enables scientists to see how dark matter interacts with the universe.
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With a background in physics from MIT and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cowern is driven by educating the curious.
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Dr. Morse, who once ran NASA's astrophysics division, agrees that Project Blue will not be easy, but says it is possible.
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It brings together several important elements of astrophysics and even geochemistry: how the elements are made, and where gold comes from.
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For the better part of four decades, solar neutrinos were at the heart of one of the largest mysteries in astrophysics.
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To that end he moved his entire group across Cambridge in 1973 to the newly formed Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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"That's the concern," Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said in a phone interview on Saturday.
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My name is Keith Redwine, and I'm a 28-year-old Ph.D. student in Baltimore, finishing up a degree in astrophysics.
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The catalogue, which contains a marvelously short, gnomic essay by Ray from which I quoted, discusses theology, astrophysics, and science fiction.
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Starting in the late nineteenth century, a series of female researchers at Harvard laid many of the foundations of modern astrophysics.
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In some instances, NASA and the military have collaborated, said Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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Under the leadership of Hideki Tanimura, researchers at the Institute of Space Astrophysics took a similar approach—which yielded similar results.
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Psychology studies human behavior, evolutionary biology examines ecosystems, astrophysics investigates planets and stars, and cosmology concentrates on the universe as a whole.
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Among those due to speak are astrophysicist Sheperd Doeleman, director of the Event Horizon Telescope at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian.
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It was the strength of what I had done all those years with the a liquid-xenon TPC for gamma-ray astrophysics.
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But I realized how many easier questions we have in astrophysics: that you could actually take a lifetime and go answer them.
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Two sets of researchers, published in two different papers in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics on Monday, detailed how a planet is formed.
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That is the belief of the members of a team of researchers led by Jon Morse, formerly director of astrophysics at NASA.
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Dr. Kirkpatrick, the Berkeley student, went on to earn a doctorate in astrophysics, but left the field for a career in technology.
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Check out the video for yourself, and spend 2017 impressing everybody with your knowledge about the hottest new branch of astrophysics.[YouTube]
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Queen guitarist Brian May, a doctor in the impossibly complex field of astrophysics, has been fighting the good fight of asteroid awareness.
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Meanwhile, the Trump administration recently proposed canceling another major astrophysics mission, the WFIRST telescope, arguing that the spacecraft design was too costly.
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As the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics' Jonathan McDowell pointed out, simply seeing debris doesn't mean the satellite has completely broken down.
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The idea is not new, says Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer and satellite-watcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, in Massachusetts.
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Scientists announced a major breakthrough in astrophysics on Thursday, with the news that gravitational waves have been detected for the first time.
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One of the lead researchers, Sherry Suyu (at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics) has been involved in the project since 2011.
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Police recovered a piece of debris from the collision, which will be analyzed by a scientist from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics.
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"The first [student] is over at Embry-Riddle right now and she is studying astrophysics with a minor in propulsion," he says.
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The three prizes, each worth $1 million and split among the recipients, are awarded in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience every two years.
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While growing up in Israel, Ronen was selected to study astrophysics and computer programming at Technion, the country's highly esteemed technical university.
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Then he'd spend the rest of the day in his room alone, watching YouTube videos on astrophysics or listening to One Direction.
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Alex Halliday: In astrophysics, the biggest breakthrough was the recording of gravitational waves emanating from the collision of two neutron stars colliding.
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In 2012, Italian music group Deproducers launched a project of science-related albums, with the first, Planetario, exploring the topic of astrophysics.
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In 1989, Italy's National Institute for Nuclear Physics opened the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, the world's largest underground laboratory dedicated to astrophysics.
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After the war, he studied astrophysics at the Air Force Institute of Technology and business at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Gelfand's older brother Joseph, meanwhile, is an associate professor of physics at New York University Abu Dhabi, with an emphasis on astrophysics.
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The impact: Mayor and Queloz's discovery of the planet 51 Pegasi b in 1995 effectively ushered in a new age of astrophysics.
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The station may have landed northwest of Tahiti, Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said on Twitter.
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"One of the highest priorities in astrophysics is to understand the properties and evolution of the first stars and galaxies," Bowman said.
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Cukier is now back at high school, but told the BBC he hopes to go to college to study physics and astrophysics.
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At each step in my education — from astrophysics to computer science to neuroscience — I've gravitated to spaces with progressively greater female representation.
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Lee calls it the "key to astrophysics," since now observers could learn about the spin, magnetic fields, composition, and relative motion of stars.
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And, according to the Penn State paper, the situation may be muddied even further by another astrophysics mystery: dark energy, or vacuum energy.
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Chandra's scientists are confident after the fix, according to Belinda Wilkes, Chandra's director and senior astrophysicist at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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This year's prize is noteworthy in honoring inventions, the award committee noted, not theoretical physics or astrophysics breakthroughs seen in some past years.
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Stellar spectroscopy would also reveal other physical attributes of stars such as their temperature, eventually giving rise to the new field of astrophysics.
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All of the data collected by RXTE is open to the public at NASA Goddard&aposs High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center .
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When it comes to numbers – or his other passions such as Latin and astrophysics – Tom's parents have little idea what he's talking about.
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Now, she's looking forward to getting back to writing and is working on an autobiographical dark TV comedy and a film involving astrophysics.
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Then, in 2012, a study by Cecilia Scannapieco of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam gave the field a wake-up call.
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Then, looking even closer in the data, they found two more of these signals, according to the study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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Nimesh Patel, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said he got a heads-up about the visit a week before.
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Martin Hendry is a Professor of Gravitational Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Glasgow and a member of the LIGO scientific collaboration.
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"We wanted to know how star formation history proceeded," Kari Helgason, scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany, told Gizmodo.
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"We have made every one of our milestones on schedule so far," said Paul Hertz, director of NASA's astrophysics division, according to SpaceNews.
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"It's possibly going to be the telescope that kills NASA astrophysics," said Brian Keating, a cosmologist at the University of California, San Diego.
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"The model proposed here is interesting, for me, primarily as it is testable," Priyamvada Natarajan Yale professor in astronomy and astrophysics, told Gizmodo.
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Shep Doeleman, director of the Event Horizon Telescope, was ebullient but guarded when reached last week at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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"Accessory to War" condenses multiple bodies of work into one important, comprehensive and coherent story of the symbiotic developments of astrophysics and war.
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The project, led by Shep Doeleman, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, was the work of more than 200 researchers.
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"These things are very violent," said Bart De Pontieu, a research scientist with Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab in Palo Alto, Calif.
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Edward Guinan, a professor at Villanova University's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, said that the university has been monitoring the star since 1981.
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Edward Guinan, a professor at Villanova University's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, said that the university has been monitoring the star since 1981.
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Dozens of PlayStation 3s sit in a refrigerated shipping container on the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's campus, sucking up energy and investigating astrophysics.
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North Korea's pursuit of large solid-fuelled missiles was "a very concerning development", said Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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Finding the maximum mass that physics and nature will allow can teach us a great deal about this otherwise inaccessible realm in astrophysics.
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Do you feel that coverage of the breakthrough minimized the role of Katherine Bouman, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics?
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Even with the H0LiCOW data in the mix now, the new Hubble constant measurement and the one determined from the cosmic microwave background aren't statistically separable to the very high degree of significance astrophysics demands, Anže Slosar, group leader of the Cosmology and Astrophysics Group at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, who was not involved with the study, explained to Gizmodo.
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On June 1, NASA astrophysics director Paul Hertz emailed the concept teams, imposing a $3 billion to $5 billion cost goal for the studies.
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In 2007, May received his PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College, some 30 years after he began his studies, according to Queen's band's website.
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I think it would be very good for the field if we could understand the astrophysics that can give rise to signals like this.
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"It's the confirmation of several theories that predicted this ought to be the case," study author Chuck Hailey, Columbia University astrophysics professor, told Gizmodo.
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According to his obituary from the NASA Astrophysics Data System, Haro's discoveries were not limited to stars: He also found a supernova and comet.
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Astronomer Kevin Schawinski and his team, who specialize in galaxy and black hole astrophysics, used AI to sharpen the resolution of blurry telescope pictures.
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"The actual hands-on thing of saving animals is so rewarding and so inspiring," adds May, who earned a Ph.D in astrophysics in 2007.
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These arguments, which seemed so abstract, produced insights of vital importance for computing, astrophysics and cosmology, not to mention theory of science and philosophy.
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"I think this is pretty huge," Peter Williams, an astronomer at Harvard's Center for Astrophysics who was not involved with the study, told Gizmodo.
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Graphic: Meingast et al/Gaia DR2 (Astronomy and Astrophysics)Scientists have discovered a nearby "stellar stream" containing thousands of stars spanning the southern sky.
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The gargantuan 'scope promises to give humanity unprecedented views of distant galaxies, help characterize alien planets, and to test the fundamental theories of astrophysics.
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For this year's hackathon, we're lucky enough to have a talented group of industry veterans, experienced in fields ranging from venture capital to astrophysics.
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He uses a combination of astrology and astrophysics—presented in a slideshow format—to explain why a child's birth-time doesn't affect their future.
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The Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto was there to hand out solar glasses and help people watch the eclipse.
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There it joined Tyson's "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" (2017), a witty guide to cosmological science that spent 73 weeks on the list.
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Roger Blandford, a professor of astrophysics at Stanford University, said that there is now overwhelming evidence that supermassive black holes are powering such phenomena.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule, threatening to delay other astrophysics missions coming after it.
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The first phase of this major survey was published this week, along with 26 research papers describing the results, in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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Today, the Minor Planet Center at the Center for Astrophysics released an official circular on the object, now provisionally called C/2019 Q4 (Borisov).
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At 903, she still remembers an unwanted sexual remark from a graduate-school professor she had sought out for advice on her astrophysics research.
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My proudest moment was during my graduation, when the emcee announced that I'd be pursuing astrophysics in university, prompting a gasp from the audience.
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Or that a 19th century Jesuit priest, Angelo Secchi, is considered a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy, "the beginning of astrophysics," as Brother Consolmagno said?
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"This is the only thing in astrophysics where you have a piece of the galaxy come to you," planetary astronomer Michele Bannister told Axios.
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It's a break with orthodox, conservative thought in the astrophysics community, which is concerned with the potential dangers of screaming into the intergalactic void.
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One day during that productive time in his life, he saw astrophysics student Virginia Trimble striding across Caltech's campus and thought, There's a good model.
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Stephen Hawking, the visionary physicist who died at his home on Wednesday at age 22012, was world-renowned for his contributions to astrophysics and cosmology.
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I had this idea that this detector I built for gamma-ray astrophysics could have been, in another version, ideal to look for dark matter.
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Earlier this year, astrophysics history was made with the announcement of a conclusive detection of gravitational waves at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).
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"It's very carbon-rich," Thomas Puzia, astronomy and astrophysics professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and one of the study's authors, told Gizmodo.
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"Kepler is the first telescope for detecting small rocky planets in the habitable zone of their stars," said Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director at NASA.
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Bouman earned her bachelor's in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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According to Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at the Queen's University Belfast Astrophysics research center, scientists are not worried about anything big, any time soon.
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"When I first saw this, I thought I'd made a mistake," Will Dunn, a PhD student studying astrophysics at the University College London, told Gizmodo.
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The Max Planck Institute has released a brand new version of its all-sky survey, which is revealed in a new article in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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There are tons of observations you can make of processes in zero or microgravity, especially in fields such as astrophysics, astrobiology, physics, chemistry, and others.
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As those missions slowly end, the agency and scientists working with them are trying to figure out the future of NASA's astronomy and astrophysics ambitions.
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Hector Socas-Navarro, an astronomer at the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics, said Breakthrough Listen is an interesting collaboration between academic institutions and private philanthropy.
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I asked Dr. Grant Tremblay, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, what he thought, and he said it was a good paper.
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Two findings from 10 papers published today in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics: The 72 candidate galaxies emit only one color of light called Lyman-alpha.
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I'm in Sun Valley, Idaho, where hundreds of astronomers are attending the 16th meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society.
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"What a tragedy that was," said Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who was not involved in the study.
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"This is an amazing accomplishment by the EHT team," said Paul Hertz, director of the astrophysics division at NASA Headquarters in Washington, according to NASA.
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By Neil deGrasse Tyson "I was at a business dinner and three guys were discussing 'Astrophysics for People in a Hurry,'" a research salesman said.
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"It would be premature to want to catch up with international standards in one jump," said Wu Xuebing, a professor of astrophysics at Peking University.
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The paper was written by Abraham Loeb, professor and chair of astronomy, and Shmuel Bialy, a postdoctoral scholar, at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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And there's more: Mr. Tepfer, who has a bachelor's degree in astrophysics, has been working recently with the Yamaha Disklavier CFX, a sophisticated player piano.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 92 — MIT is most famous for offering degrees in subjects like physics and astrophysics, where it ranks highest in QS's rankings.
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I've seen great success among many of the 200 astronomy and astrophysics majors at Williams during my time here, without a noticeable correlation with grades.
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"It's a sling shot effect," said Mats Carlsson, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Oslo in Norway, and co-author of the paper.
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It was hailed as the first known instance of multi-messenger astrophysics: one source in the universe emitting two kinds of waves, gravitational and electromagnetic.
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"TESS was designed and launched specifically to find Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby stars," said Paul Hertz, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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"Our method is insensitive to the choice of cosmological model," Inh Jee, the study's first author from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, told Gizmodo.
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"If the thin ice-rich layers that we see exposed close to the surface are the result of the comet's activity, then they represent its evolution, and it does not necessarily require global layering to have occurred early in the comet's formation history," study lead author Gianrico Filacchione, of the Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome, told Space.
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Minor spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery below In the show, Burnham claims the code is confusing because it deals with quantum astrophysics, biochemistry, and gene expression.
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"Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down" by J.E. Gordon When Musk decided he wanted to learn rocket science, he studied textbooks on astrophysics and engineering.
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"It is probably preferable to refer to Ross 128 b as a temperate planet," the study's authors write in the study published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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This is the method used by a team of French and American researchers at the Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory and the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University.
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" Mack chuckled to herself as she walked down the hallway after writing this reply: "I dunno, man, I already went and got a PhD in astrophysics.
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No other NASA telescope can analyze these specific organized rays, Paul Hertz, Director of the Astrophysics Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, told Gizmodo.
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But after speaking with many within the astrophysics community, NASA decided to move forward with the decadal, which will be finalized over the next two years.
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"He came up with the idea that black holes have a temperature," Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, tells The Verge.
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But a year later, astronomers figured out a way to repurpose the janky telescope to do all sorts of other science, from planet hunting to astrophysics.
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One of these planets, Teegarden b, has the highest Earth Similarity Index of any planet yet discovered, according to the paper published in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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"The modeling is very sophisticated," Dan Milisavljevic, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who was unaffiliated with these studies, told Mashable via email.
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"We think that feedback keeps galaxies from becoming too large," said Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA)'s Marie Machacek, a co-author of the study.
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Publishing their findings in the Astronomy and Astrophysics journal, the team hopes the map will also help us understand how the Milky Way's structures are formed.
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"Radio astronomy is really, really unique in the kinds of astrophysics that we can study," says Brian Kent, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
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It is being hailed as the first known instance of multi-messenger astrophysics: one source in the universe emitting two kinds of waves, gravitational and electromagnetic.
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Jonathan Lunine is the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and Director of the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science at Cornell University.
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Adam Frank, an astrophysics professor at the University of Rochester, wrote an editorial for The New York Times about aliens being real figures from the past.
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What would it look like if, instead of an annual $700 billion defense budget, we had a Department of Astrophysics with an annual $700 billion budget?
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He shared the 2008 Kavli Prize for Astrophysics with Maarten Schmidt, a Dutch astronomer who first identified bright and powerful quasi-stellar radio sources, or quasars.
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"We describe GJ 357 b as a 'hot Earth,'" said Enric Pallé, study co-author and astrophysicist at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands.
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"I don't know if it's a practical plant, but it's doing fairly well," said Edward F. Guinan, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Villanova University.
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There simply aren't lessons to teach you, for example, how to have a complex conversation about banking regulations or astrophysics or whatever your field of expertise.
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Ana Georgescu is a 22-year-old Romanian and a senior at Harvard University, where she studies astrophysics and English and has a nighttime radio show.
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The astrophysics division would be cut by 12 percent, but overall, the budget would give an increase to NASA's science directorate, primarily for robotic planetary missions.
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Mukherjee had said that she had never formally studied astrophysics but was selected after she shared her thoughts on 'black hole theory' on a Facebook group.
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But I also interviewed nine people who are alive today, people like Brian May, the lead guitarist for Queen who also has a Ph.D. in astrophysics.
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The researchers, hailing from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, made their case in a paper released (though not published in a peer-reviewed journal) this November.
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"The Hoeijmakers paper is a great first step in identifying the chemical ingredients of the atmosphere," Laura Kreidberg from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told Gizmodo.
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Handsome and bright, he earned straight As at Downey High School in Modesto, where he was junior class president and devoured books on astrophysics and extraterrestrial life.
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In 218, Peter Sturrock, a professor of space science and astrophysics at Stanford University, mailed 2,611 questionnaires about UFO sightings to members of the American Astronomical Society.
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But, as Manasvi Lingam of Harvard University and Abraham Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics observe, there is at least one further possibility: alien spaceships.
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In early February German news magazine Der Spiegel reported similar accusations at a Max Planck institute, yet without naming the specific institute (Astrophysics) or the professor (Kauffmann).
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Tarter, who was the inspiration for Dr. Ellie Arroway in Carl Sagan's Contact, has a PhD in astrophysics and has dedicated her career to the SETI field.
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"Our sun will die in several billion years, and when that happens, we'll need to relocate," said Avi Loeb, chair of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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It takes into account the relative contribution of each author and makes adjustments for the over-representation of papers on astronomy and astrophysics in its sample journals.
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Kalogera is also co-founder and the current director of CIERA, the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, an endowed research center at Northwestern University.
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So the entire life cycle of these stars created every element represented on the periodic table, according to Edo Berger of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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The Canary Islands telescope sites are run by astronomers at the Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) in Tenerife, a local research organization that operates the European Northern Observatory.
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Dr. Israelian is a rocker-scientist who had his own punk band and studied astrophysics in Armenia before emigrating to Spain with his family in the 227s.
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As with the first observation, a much-celebrated astrophysics landmark announced in February, the source of the new event is likely a pair of merging black holes.
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"They looked so crisp, that just didn't seem right to me," said Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who corresponds with Langbroek.
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If women can become presidential party nominees, if they can run Fortune 222 companies, if they can teach astrophysics, then they must be able to become priests.
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"Our finding constitutes the first independent confirmation of a methane detection," said Marco Giuranna, a scientist at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Italy, in an email.
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Additional partners include Northrop Grumman, based in Falls Church, Va.; NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley; the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
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Jenna Samra, a doctoral candidate in applied physics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is a lead researcher on the project and helped design the device.
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Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the success of this week's experiment was exciting, but he cautioned against "over-hyping" it.
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Written by Gwendolyn Warnock and Kirjan Waage, who also created the moving astrophysics lesson "Baby Universe: A Puppet Odyssey," the show includes 30 puppets, music and video.
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More than 100 countries have so far used the lab to conduct nearly 3,000 scientific investigations involving everything from health and medicine to astrophysics, according to NASA.
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"These scientists have done great work," Jonathan Lunine, an astronomer at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science (also not involved in the new study) told Gizmodo.
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So for this week's Giz Asks, we asked experts in astronomy and astrophysics what the loudest sound would be, if sound as we understand it existed up there.
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May, who earned his PhD in astrophysics in 2007, dusted off his signature red ax and laid down a fittingly over-the-top anthem to mark the occasion.
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"This emphasizes the limitations of the existing licensing process," Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and an expert on artificial satellites, told Gizmodo.
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"It ties Kepler 90 with our own Solar System for having the most known planets," said Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters, during NASA's press conference.
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Researchers with Leiden University, the Institute of Radio Astronomy, the University of Hamburg, and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics have published their findings in Science Advances.[CNET]
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In the meantime, Shaughnessy has moved on to other projects studying nuclear reaction rates studying other heavier elements, this time relevant both to astrophysics and to national security.
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"This rate of attempts is not too different from what the U.S. was doing in the Cold War," Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said.
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Take the work of Matt Russo, a postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, who specializes in converting the resonances of astronomical systems into musical compositions.
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"The lenses we have right now have been found through all sorts of ways," Liliya Williams, a professor in astrophysics at the University of Minnesota, tells The Verge.
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Right now, four teams of scientists are designing ambitious space telescope concepts in preparation for an upcoming report to NASA known as the 2020 Decadal Survey for Astrophysics.
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The move indicates that the administration may not want to fund big-budget astrophysics missions in the future, as it focuses on a human return to the Moon.
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"Marsis was born to make this kind of discovery, and now it has," says Roberto Orosei, a radioastronomer at the National Institute for Astrophysics, who led the investigation.
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Among them are Mithi Alexa de los Reyes, a graduate student in astronomy at Caltech, and Sal Wanying Fu, an incoming graduate student in astrophysics at UC Berkeley.
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At the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, the physicist Kai Polsterer heads the astroinformatics group — a team of researchers focused on new, data-centered methods of doing astrophysics.
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"Before we launched Kepler, we didn't know if planets were common or rare in our galaxy," Paul Hertz, NASA's Astrophysics Division director, said in a press call Tuesday.
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"The original investigation was intended to see how the mechanism works, and that was very successful," noted team member Mike Edmunds, a professor of astrophysics at Cardiff University.
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Decades of Preparation In 1979, a young David Shoemaker embarked on a 35-year journey through spacetime that would eventually lead him to the bleeding edge of astrophysics.
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He's not just a phenomenal guitarist, drummer and sound-engineer in his own right, either; as Macey tells us, he's just finished a degree in astrophysics "for fun".
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The Cornell professor and NASA advisor was unmatched in his ability to make the esoteric concepts of astronomy and astrophysics understandable to millions of people around the world.
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In 1972, he was chosen to direct the new Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University, formed by the merger of the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics and Cambridge Observatory.
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"TESS was designed and launched specifically to find Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby stars," said Paul Hertz, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington, in a statement.
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He graduated from Harvard, received a master's degree in advanced mathematics from Cambridge in England and received a doctoral degree in astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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"The story of King Midas talks of his magic touch that can turn metal into gold," said Marco Mignoli, study co-author at the National Institute of Astrophysics.
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Written by Gwendolyn Warnock and Kirjan Waage, the team that created the moving astrophysics lesson "Baby Universe: A Puppet Odyssey," the show includes 4603 puppets, music and video.
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Graphic: Hacar et al (Astronomy & Astrophysics 2018)Scientists first spotted these filaments around a different nebula back in 2013 and have since spotted them around other star-forming clouds.
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Basically, the structure is "closer to Sag A*'s event horizon than Mercury is to the Sun," Grant Tremblay, astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Gizmodo.
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Priya Natarajan, Yale Astrophysics Professor and Science CommunicatorI did not work with him formally, but I interacted with him during my PhD and he was very kind to me.
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Lederman's Nobel-winning discovery used machined sheets from the then-decommissioned USS Missouri battleship, write Carlo Giunti and Chung Kim in the Fundamentals of Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics textbook.
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"Hubble is one of the greatest scientific missions in history, and has performed brilliantly for 28 years," Grant Tremblay, astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Gizmodo.
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That report will discuss the future of astronomy and astrophysics; the 2010 astronomy decadal listed the WFIRST space telescope and the LSST ground-based telescope as its biggest priorities.
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"The temperature contrast on this planet is about as big as it can possibly be," said researcher Laura Kreidberg of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The team combines Li's minimalist design ideals and foodie bent with Cai's big data chops (he's an astrophysics post-doc and NASA Hubble Fellow) and Wilson Li's startup knowledge.
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Physics students stood watch at the local morgue to keep wild dogs away from the fresh corpses, and these grim circumstances imparted to Fang a profound love of astrophysics.
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"Neural networks provide a fast alternative to the maximum likelihood methods that are commonly used to estimate parameters of interest in astrophysics from imaging data," the Stanford group concludes.
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To test this theory, researchers from Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics and Scuola Normale Superiore had the Hubble, Chandra, and Spitzer telescopes search for evidence of black hole seeds.
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"Black hole seeds are extremely hard to find and confirming their detection is very difficult," co-author Andrea Grazian of Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics said in a statement.
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The planet, known as Ross 128b, completes an orbit of its star, Ross 128, about once every 10 days, according to new research published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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"We think that feedback keeps galaxies from becoming too large," co-author Marie Machacek, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in Massachusetts, said in the statement.
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By extrapolation, they estimated the stream could contain at least 4,000 stars and be at least 1,300 light-years long, according to the paper published in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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Still, it's a thrilling time for astrophysics—neutron star collisions might come in each month, and black hole collisions even more frequently, from much farther out in the universe.
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To clear things up a bit, I emailed with Jonathan McDowell, a physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, about what happens during a rocket's journey to orbit.
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Christian Ott, a tenured astrophysics professor who was investigated by the California Institute of Technology in 2015 for harassing two female graduate students in his research group, has resigned.
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Bouman created the algorithm that made it possible to assemble the photo, according to the Washington Post, and is a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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The discovery, which was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, is an indicator that large-scale structures influenced the dynamics of galaxies across vast distances in the early universe.
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According to Or Graur, lead author on the study, and a research associate in the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Astrophysics, supernovae are extremely important to physics.
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A team led by Silvia Belladitta, a graduate student at the University of Insubria in Italy, announced the discovery of the blazar on Friday in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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"This discovery is basic to much of modern astrophysics, since it shows that stars much more massive than the Sun must either explode or form black holes," NASA explains.
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Questions have swirled on campus about what to do with certain cultural mainstays: Roman Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby," Chuck Close's "Big Self-Portrait," even Neil deGrasse Tyson's books on astrophysics.
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The spectacular space shot accompanied a recent study in Astronomy & Astrophysics about the magnetic dynamics of the Whale Galaxy (NGC 4631), which is 25 million light years from Earth.
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These twin discoveries -- the collision, and now LB-1 -- indicate that scientists are reaching "a renaissance in our understanding of black hole astrophysics," said Reitze in the press release.
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"Before Juno, we could only guess what Jupiter's poles would look like," said Alberto Adriani, Juno co-investigator and senior researcher at the National Institute of Astrophysics and Planetology.
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She had hoped to get a Ph.D. from Princeton, but the astrophysics graduate program did not admit women at the time and declined to send her a course catalog.
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It will bring together top scientists from a range of non-profit space institutions such as the Boldly Go Institute and the SETI Institute, including Jon Morse, NASA's former director of astrophysics and the director of Boldly Go. "For every mission that NASA selects, there are two or three they don't select that could fly and be outstanding," Jon Morse, NASA's former director of astrophysics and current director of Boldly Go, told Motherboard.
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GIF: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GizmodoA new paper from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics researchers Shmuel Bialy and Avi Loeb explores an idea to explain where the extra acceleration comes from.
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Rappa, who's studying astrophysics, and Ashworth, who will soon be starting a college aerospace program, plan to auction the suits with the help of the American Space Museum in November.
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Employees at the Institute for Astrophysics in Garching also complained that the advisory committee is not a sufficient avenue for grievances, and that committee members have close contact with directors.
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While there, she was responsible for leading the project, with assistance from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the MIT Haystack Observatory.
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Straughn, the associate director of the astrophysics science division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, studies the Universe's most puzzling phenomena — from supermassive black holes to the evolution of galaxies.
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Haro served as the head of the astronomy institute at the University of Mexico and created Mexico's National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics to expand the country's astronomical research.
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While these candidates aren't confirmed yet, there's a good chance most of them will be, according to Andrew Vanderburg of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, who presented the findings today.
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As NASA's next flagship space telescope is riddled with delays, the space agency is giving scientists some hard limits on how much money can be spent on future astrophysics missions.
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Their findings, which have been accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, show that the system is stable and that it can persist for more than 10,000 orbits of 11 years.
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Photo: APNeil deGrasse Tyson might be an expert in the field of astrophysics, but when it comes to the Earth's gravity, he's just as helpless as the rest of us.
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Image: NASA/Cassini"In our paper we looked at several ways Enceladus might make molecular hydrogen," Lunine, an astronomer at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, told Gizmodo.
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New research published in Astronomy & Astrophysics identifies two planets around TRAPPIST-1 as the most likely to harbor life, including one that may even feature a vast ocean of water.
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"That's actually the reason why everybody is always studying these large-scale structures," said Noam Libeskind, a cosmographer at the Leibniz-Institut for Astrophysics (AIP) in Germany, in a call.
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The study was led by Marion Dierickx, a graduate student at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), with contributions from her PhD advisor Avi Loeb, a prolific Harvard physicist.
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But Wilson's comments on its movement may shed light on "a previously secret orbit-related capability," said Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer and astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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Dr. McMahan received undergraduate degrees in Physics and History of Art from Duke, a Ph.D in Physics from Dartmouth and served a postdoctoral appointment at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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Dr. Anna Watts, the associate professor of astrophysics at the University of Amsterdam, recently wrote a public letter of support for the two graduate student victims in the Caltech case.
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He talks about his "professional history with the demotion of Pluto" when addressing the groping allegation against him, and mentions the "grueling adventure-marathon" that was finishing astrophysics graduate school.
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Professor Richard Muller, who is also associated with the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, said on Quora that he doesn't "think it would be very hard" to make one.
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"We need to make precise mass measurements," said David Latham of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who is in charge of organizing astronomers to follow up the TESS observations.
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"We have achieved something presumed to be impossible just a generation ago," said astrophysicist Sheperd Doeleman, director of the Event Horizon Telescope at the Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Harvard & Smithsonian.
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Einstein's theory also was validated by another major astrophysics achievement announced in 2016, the detection of gravitational waves, or ripples in spacetime, arising from two black holes that smashed together.
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"It really changed our view of what might happen in the outer part of the solar system," said Scott J. Kenyon, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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ACCESSORY TO WAR The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military By Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang Read by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Courtney B. Vance18 hours, 38 minutes.
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"Up until now, such a concentration of three supermassive black holes had never been discovered in the universe," said Peter Weilbacher, study author at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam.
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"It looks like some of it is very steep," said Peter Thomas, a visiting scientist at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science who helped plan the Pan encounter.
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The ninth-grader and astrophysics enthusiast from Windermere, Florida was naturally drawn the film, which imagined an astronaut's desperate escape to Earth after the destruction of a NASA space shuttle.
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Best known for his revolutionary calculations describing the interaction of light and matter, he produced valuable contributions to numerous fields, including solid state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, biology and applied mathematics.
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"Long after dropping out of astrophysics graduate school, she was posting videos of colored tuning forks endowed with vibrational therapeutic energy that she channels from the orbiting planets," he writes.
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These models, says Denis Grodent, Director of the Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute at the University of Liège, were largely influenced by our present knowledge of Earth's aurora.
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Experts must retrace the uncertain steps from the moment of the merger back through the death, life and birth of a pair of stars—a sequence that involves much unresolved astrophysics.
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She led the project with the help of a team of scientists from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the MIT Haystack Observatory.
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Disclosure of emails also revealed that a prominent critic of climate change at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics described many of his scientific papers as "deliverables" to his corporate funders.
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"Before Juno, we could only guess what Jupiter's poles would look like," Alberto Adriani, Juno co-investigator from the Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology in Rome, said in a statement.
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So, while LIGO's gravitational wave observation is as sure as anything gets in astrophysics, it seems a bit of ambiguity as to their origin has to persist, at least for now.
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"Planet 9 may be an exoplanet in our own solar system," said Gongjie Li, another astronomer at Harvard's Center for Astrophysics whose recent modeling paper explores this very possibility, among others.
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Their ensuing analysis, which has been accepted by the science journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, paints a fascinating portrait of a dark and cold planet in the far reaches of the solar system.
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NASA's latest space-bound astrophysics instrument will be carried aloft by a Falcon 9 rocket from the fleet of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's private launch service, Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX.
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But TeVeS does so by augmenting gravity with "scalar" and "vector" fields that "essentially amplify gravity," said Fabian Schmidt, a cosmologist at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany.
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Rebecca McElroy, an astrophysics doctoral student at the University of Sydney, tweeted video of a "mini march for science" around the dome of the Anglo-Australian Telescope in New South Wales.
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The team, led by Fabrizio Nicastro of the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome, tracked the light that was absorbed by oxygen that had lost all but two of its electrons.
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Steve Desch is a professor of astrophysics at the School of Earth & Space Exploration at Arizona State University who's come up with a novel plan to rescue the rapidly melting Arctic.
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In April, a team of researchers led by Marco Giuranna, a planetary scientist at the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, published a paper in Nature Geoscience that offered a tantalizing solution.
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"Now we're seeing people looking at very complicated graphs; they're overloaded by data, and the visual system can't handle it all," says Matthew Schneps of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics.
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"If you pick a random star in the sky, there's a 50 percent chance it's binary," study author John Tobin, an astrophysics professor at the University of Oklahoma, tells The Verge.
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This moment is being celebrated as the first known instance of what's called "multi-messenger astrophysics" -- one source in the universe (the collision) emitting two kinds of waves: gravitational and electromagnetic.
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These cards will be for popular books, like The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse-Tyson and Capital Gaines by Chip Gaines.
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"This is a dramatic event that happened a few million years ago," Lisa Kewley, director of the Arc Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3D, said in the release.
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Brad Pitt does the honors in this 45-minute cut, a brief tour of astrophysics and evolutionary biology as they relate to the deep and enduring questions of philosophy and religion.
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"There's no way that the accretion should be able to shut down as quickly as we've seen it do," said Paul Green, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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Between presentations on black holes and alien planets, a panel that included astrobiologist David Grinspoon and Mel Ulmer, director of astrophysics at Northwestern University, discussed the potential planet-wide climate project.
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My renowned astrophysics professor taught us how the universe seemed to be expanding, but never bothered to explain what it was expanding into (still waiting for someone to demystify that one).
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America's next big space telescope has been delayed at least a year to May 2020, NASA said on Tuesday, throwing the nation's plan and budget for space astrophysics into potential turmoil.
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Feryal Ozel, an astronomy and astrophysics professor at the University of Arizona who was on the science council for the project, first published a paper on black hole imaging in 2000.
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"Those flares can sterilize the atmosphere of the planet," said Xavier Bonfils of the Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics in Grenoble, France, the lead author of a paper describing the planet.
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Sky watchers like Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, noted that MEV-2800 approached within a few miles of the Intelsat satellite about a week ago.
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But in a new study, researchers from Italy&aposs National Institute for Astrophysics report that they have observed changes in the star&aposs activity that indicate it could have another planet.
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"The decadal survey has given the breath of life to some of the grandest things we've ever done in astronomy," says astronomer Grant Tremblay of Harvard and Smithsonian's Center for Astrophysics.
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"The exomoon is like a comet of ice that is evaporating and spewing off these rocks into space," said Brian Metzger, study author and associate professor of astrophysics at Columbia University.
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This makes for awkward moments when modern astrophysics vaults one of these previously anonymous stars into the limelight, because it is exploding weirdly or turns out to harbor possibly habitable planets.
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"One of the great questions of all time, and one of NASA's objective's, is whether we are alone in the universe," said Paul Hertz, director of astrophysics at NASA, at a conference.
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Although the machine cost roughly $40 million, the MareNostrum supercomputer is freely available to scientists, and has been used for research on areas as diverse as astrophysics, climate modeling, and genome research.
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"Fermi&aposs first 10 years have produced numerous scientific discoveries that have revolutionized our understanding of the gamma-ray universe," Paul Hertz, director of NASA&aposs Astrophysics Division, said in a statement.
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"You usually consider yourself lucky if you can age anything to 10 or 20 percent," Michael Shara, Curator in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History told Gizmodo.
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If successful, it will serve as a proof of principle for future space-based ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray experiments, such as her proposed satellite detector, Poemma (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics).
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"A globular cluster might be the first place in which intelligent life is identified in our galaxy," Rosanne Di Stefano of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) said in a statement.
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Ever since BuzzFeed News reported on allegations of harassment at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, 30 scientists from half a dozen other institutes reported similar accusations against directors.
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Often, learning to play the game also involves learning important real world skills or knowledge, whether it's astrophysics in a space game or learning how to run a country in strategy game.
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That's among the less threatening stories of harassment shared by Dr. Kirkpatrick, 35, a former physics and astrophysics student at the University of California, Berkeley, who went on to get her doctorate.
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"For most of the time we've been looking at this object, it has been growing rapidly," co-author James Guillochon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said in a press release.
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It's a process that is central to the study of astrophysics, and a lot of what we know about this cycle stems from the work of today's Google doodle honoree, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
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It's an enormous review compiled by the National Academy of Sciences every 10 years that lists what kinds of missions the astrophysics community thinks NASA should work on in the decade ahead.
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An astronomer at the Havard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics chimed in on Twitter with his theory: It's from a Chinese rocket, called the Chang Zheng 7 rocket that launched on June 25.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson has a new book out called Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military, co-written with Avis Lang of the American Museum of Natural History.
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The original CAST logo, back when it was called SATAN (Image Ryan F. Mandelbaum) Until now, CAST hadn't been hunting for axions at masses and x-ray production levels predicted by astrophysics.
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"This is what we do all the time, put forward a working hypothesis and test it," said Enrico Barausse of the Astrophysics Institute of Paris, who has worked on MOND-like theories.
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Previous studies suggest that planets larger than 21140 times the size of Earth are usually gaseous, said Jason Dittmann, lead study author and postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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"It was the universe's last major transition and one of the current frontiers of astrophysics," astronomer Eduardo Bañados from the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science said in a press release.
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"The best science comes from theories that make predictions that can be tested, and it doesn't get any better than this," Milisavljevic, who works at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, added.
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Led by a Notre Dame astrophysics professor named Peter Garnavich, the team looked at data recorded by Kepler over a three-year timespan—data that included views of around 50 trillion stars.
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NASA's latest astrophysics satellite, meanwhile, soared on toward orbit, starting the clock on a two-year, $337 million quest to expand astronomers' known catalog of so-called exoplanets, worlds circling distant stars.
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The phenomenon, characterized by intense millisecond-long blasts of radio energy, is among the most mysterious in astrophysics and has led even relatively serious people to start thinking in terms of aliens.
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" Universities, Mia notes, have protocols for dealing with complaints of sexual harassment, but much of the work in astrophysics involves collaborations between academics from different countries and institutions, and "there's zero protection.
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"As the binary stars orbit each other we see different parts of the pulsating star," said David Jones, study co-author and researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands.
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In other words, we have a very good, very deep theory of astrophysics that accounts for dark matter perfectly given the existence of a particle matching perfectly the theorized properties of WIMPs.
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Details: The spacewalk is 1 of 5 planned to swap out batteries, with 5 others planned for later in the year to repair an astrophysics instrument on the outside of the station.
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At some point in the near future, the geometry of the sun, Earth and telescope will make communication and management of the observatory too difficult, said Paul Hertz, NASA's astrophysics division director.
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"They lay out a pretty convincing case that this system is a triple supermassive black hole merger," Chiara Mingarelli, associate research scientist at the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics, told Gizmodo.
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That could mean asking for new challenges in your current role or taking a leap into a new job, said Mahadevan, an astrophysics PhD who began his corporate career in start-ups.
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Led by Griffin Hosseinzadeh, an astrophysics PhD student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the study reveals that an exploding star called SN (supernova) 2017cbv straight-up bodyslammed its companion star.
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"It's like standing in front of a lamp and throwing a flea across it," said professor Adam Burgasser of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Science at the University of California San Diego.
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"This was a very big surprise," Rennan Barkana, author of the new paper in Nature and head of the Department of Astrophysics School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University, told Gizmodo.
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So we would get together at cafes and say, all right this song has these lyrics, and Erin would ask me to walk him through what they meant in the context of astrophysics.
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"It's like walking around the world and seeing only newborn infants and really old adults," Grant Tremblay, astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics not involved with the new study told Gizmodo.
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According to co-author Bryan Gaensler, director of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, the findings suggest that magnetic fields form more quickly and earlier than previously expected.
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Graduate school at MIT showed me the way to astrophysics — how it can be an amazing route to many questions, including how the universe looks, how it functions, and even particle physics questions.
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The agency's science programs focus on planetary science, astrophysics, heliophysics, and Earth science, and the Planetary Society recommends that the Trump administration not only continue these initiatives but strengthen them with more funding.
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New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) suggests some of the 11 farthest stars in our galaxy—approximately 300,000 lightyears from Earth—were probably snatched from the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy.
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"I think this is a really big deal, and I'm really excited about the result," Peter Williams, an astronomer at Harvard's Center for Astrophysics who was not involved with the study, told Gizmodo.
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"I have to say this is a fantastic paper but it is a bummer of a paper," Shami Chatterjee, senior research associate at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science told Gizmodo.
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The astrophysics prize went to Rainer Weiss from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ronald W.P. Drever from the California Institute of Technology and Kip S. Thorne, also from Caltech, for directly detecting gravitational waves.
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For the past two decades, he's been studying the creative process, steeping himself in French philosophy, quantum mechanics, poetry, and astrophysics—from Rukeyser to Costa de Beauregard, T. S. Eliot to Jacques Maritain.
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"It's the coolest small planet that we know of around a star this bright," said Diana Dragomir, a postdoctoral researcher in the Massachusetts Institute for Technology's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
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"Astronomy is an ultimate expression of 'pure' science that has little immediate practical benefits," Luis C. Ho, the director of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, said by email.
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"We get a lot more return on our investment if we know when and where to look," Eric Ford, a professor of astrophysics and co-author of the new study, told Business Insider.
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"What's interesting about this is he uses the body of the vehicle to lose most of the velocity," Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said in an interview.
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Lead researcher Maria Cristina De Sanctis of Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics and colleagues suspect the material formed inside Ceres through hydrothermal activity, though how the organics reached the surface remains a mystery.
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The artworks and the research behind them combine and connect disciplines far beyond the usual art-world fare: astrophysics, engineering, environmentalism, thermodynamics, biology, arachnology and musical composition — often several at the same time.
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As you move from left to right in the equation, you shift from astrophysics, to the biochemistry of life, to evolutionary theory, to cognitive science, all the way to theories of technological development.
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What they found: Scientists originally thought the galaxy was host to two supermassive black holes, but new, more detailed mapping revealed the third, they report in a study in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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But this cosmic stalemate has now been upended with the publication of a new paper in Nature on Wednesday, led by Columbia University astrophysicist Chuck Hailey, co-director of the Columbia Astrophysics Lab.
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It is so baked into our current understanding of the cosmos that it came as a surprise when a recent paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics questioned whether it's there at all.
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"There are some problems with the analysis, which doesn't use many of the standard things one would do in radio astronomy," Chris Lintott, professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford, told Motherboard.
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Greg SalvesenNational Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa BarbaraAs far as I'm aware, the Perseus galaxy cluster is the current record holder for the loudest sound discovered in the Universe.
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astronomer Jonathan McDowell told Gizmodo that it's less likely that the object is a spaceship and more likely that one of our current assumptions about the object is wrong.
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"Whatever the process that triggers this electromagnetic radiation has to affect a significant portion of the jet's energy budget," Alexander Tchekhovskoy from the Theoretical Astrophysics Center at the University of California, Berkeley, told Gizmodo.
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"This kink feature that separates the old, faint population from the newer, brighter ones isn't just what the theoretical model predicts," study author Sownak Bose, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Gizmodo.
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Scientists won't call it habitable just yet, but the observation is promising"It's more exciting than Proxima Centauri b," Emily Rice, research associate in astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History told Gizmodo.
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Science writes that the experiment is important as "China's first mission dedicated to astrophysics" and "shows that the country is set to become a force in space science," paraphrasing Physicist David Spergel at Princeton.
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The Max Planck Society advised Kauffmann against it and instead issued a statement in which the organization spoke on behalf of both the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics as well as the professor herself.
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We talked to the lead author of the paper Jason Eastman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to find out a little more about how those three suns would move in the sky.
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"The nearby galaxy can't be too close, or too far away, and like the Goldilocks principle, too hot or too cold," study co-author John Wise, an associate astrophysics professor at Georgia Tech, said.
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The Federal Reserve's holding pattern on interest rates should signal one thing to investors: start brushing up on astrophysics if you want to understand why the world's economy might be approaching a cosmic conclusion.
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As a result of this proximity, the planet is wasting away at a record pace, scientists reported on Thursday in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, as stellar radiation and wind blows off its upper atmosphere.
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In a paper published in December in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Schawinski and his ETH Zurich colleagues Dennis Turp and Ce Zhang used generative modeling to investigate the physical changes that galaxies undergo as they evolve.
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While there's a lot about her gig that's hard to understand without a PhD in astrophysics, there's plenty Walkowicz can teach any young woman who's looking to break in to a male-dominated field.
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The new study, carried out by researchers at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome and published in Nature, used data from Rosetta's infrared detector, called VIRTIS, to study the face of the comet.
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"Just as we expected, there are exciting discoveries lurking in our archived Kepler data, waiting for the right tool or technology to unearth them," said Paul Hertz, director of NASA's Astrophysics Division in Washington.
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Dr. Ricker has been a rocket scientist, building astronomical satellites to be shot into space, for pretty much his entire career as a researcher at M.I.T.'s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
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"What is particularly annoying about this satellite is that it is designed to be visually bright and has no other purpose," Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Gizmodo.
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"These objects look like gas and behave like stars," said Andrea Ghez, study author, director of the UCLA Galactic Center Group and the university's Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics.
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A forthcoming paper about the discovery, co-authored by Cukier, is due out soon from the journal Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (an unpublished version of the article is available on the preprint server arXiv).
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However, Alan Duffy, a research fellow in the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, said that China's secrecy around the space mission made the risks difficult to assess.
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At 30, after completing his PhD in astrophysics and briefly running a start-up, Mahadevan and his wife sold all their belongings and packed their bags for a 12-month around-the-world trip.
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Albert Zijlstra, an astrophysics professor at the University of Manchester who was not involved in the study, told CNN that the "very thorough" research could offer a new understanding about the composition of asteroids.
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"It opens new roads of research," Pierre Vernazza, a researcher at the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Marseille, France, who first noted the discrepancy between asteroids and meteorites in 2008, said of the new paper.
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Ross 128 b, however, orbits "the quietest star in its neighborhood," said Xavier Bonfils, an astronomer at the Institute of Planetary Science and Astrophysics of Grenoble and one of the scientists who discovered it.
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A similar scenario is happening right now with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which is billions of dollars over budget and many years behind schedule, making it harder for other astrophysics projects to get funding.
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Hacar (ESO)"The detection of fibers in Orion opens a new window on the description of the internal gas structure in massive clouds," the authors wrote in the paper published recently in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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"We have seen what we thought was unseeable," astronomer Shep Doeleman, who led the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics' effort to capture the image, said during a news conference, reported to the New York Times.
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Slatyer's career thus far demonstrates how the new era of open-source astrophysics data allows early-career researchers who wouldn't ordinarily be able to secure observing time on a big telescope to make important discoveries.
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The after-fight glow is not only visually beautiful, it could also help scientists understand the death throes of Sun-like stars, according to a recent study about the image in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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"There are several reasons why it's been too difficult to decipher this script," says Nisha Yadav, a researcher in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India.
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Instead, it formed across the entire disc, says Jes Jørgensen, associate professor in astrophysics and planetary science at the Niels Bohr Institute and the Centre for Star and Planet Formation at the University of Copenhagen.
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The space agency's next flagship space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, is delayed and over budget, meaning it will eat up more of NASA's astrophysics money than expected in the years ahead.
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Image courtesy of Ted BordelonDennis Dinge, an astrophysics PhD who is considering a run for New Mexico's 1st district, also hopes to apply problem-solving skills to more down-to-Earth issues, like job growth.
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But there's a "pretty big difference" in the way sound travels through the air on Mars compared to Earth, Don Banfield, principal research scientist at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, told Gizmodo.
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"What's not so clear is whether the sail material can survive that sort of acceleration, and so that's a question that I have," said Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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"It doesn't mean that the sun will 'eat' the Earth any time soon," said Jacob Bean, a co-author of the paper and an assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago.
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A spokeswoman for CalTech, citing "privacy issues," declined to comment further, but hours after this story was published, Science magazine reported the person was Christian Ott, a professor of theoretical astrophysics who studies gravitational waves.
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She later learned that there were fewer women in academic philosophy than in either math or astrophysics, and a sense of the way inequality was built into that pipeline propelled her interest in feminist philosophy.
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"We started thinking, what if these planets aren't airy like cotton candy at all," said Anthony Piro, study author and George Ellery Hale Distinguished Scholar in Theoretical Astrophysics at the Carnegie Institution for Science Observatories.
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Either would grant astronomers plenty of time to carry out the kinds of observations they would have liked to do for Oumuamua, including listening for radio signals and exploring aspects of geophysics and interstellar astrophysics.
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Dyson worked on a diverse range of physics and mathematical problems: nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology (one of his ideas, the Dyson Sphere, was even featured in a "Star Trek" episode).
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TOI 700 d "joins a very small population of presently known habitable-zone terrestrial-sized planets," according to a forthcoming paper in Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, which is also available as a preprint on arXiv.
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I am an astrophysicist and am interested in a wide range of theoretical problems in astrophysics, from the formation of the very first galaxies to the gravitational interactions of black holes, stars and even planets.
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