| 单词 | astrophysicist |
| 例句 | Kepler stood at a cusp in history; the last scientific astrologer was the first astrophysicist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’s the astrophysicist who confirmed the existence of dark matter,” I said, “the invisible stuff that makes up the universe.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z In addition to being the mission's chemist, he was also an accomplished astrophysicist. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1965 several astrophysicists at Princeton University were calculating what would have happened right after the big bang. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It took a long time before astrophysicists came to agree that our universe was finite—that it did, in fact, have a beginning. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I could introduce you to my colleagues, treat you to the best curry outside India, and show you just how boring the life of an astrophysicist can be. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Some astrophysicists believe that a little more squeezing makes the neutrons break down into their component quarks, creating a quark star. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Particle physicists have tended to favor the particle explanation of WIMPs, astrophysicists the stellar explanation of MACHOs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Altogether, the abstract was, in the words of Caltech astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne, "one of the most prescient documents in the history of physics and astronomy." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As Caltech astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne has written: "The speed of light turned out to be the same in all directions and at all seasons." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Not like a medical doctor, but an astrophysicist—a scientist who studies the planets, stars, and other objects in space and how they work. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z As far back as 1942, a Northwestern University astrophysicist named Ralph B. Baldwin had suggested such a possibility in an article in Popular Astronomy magazine. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Jennifer Carson is an astrophysicist whose writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. Neil deGrasse Tyson Explores the Symbiosis Between War and Astrophysics 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z He, Zelinskie and Amber Straughn, an astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center, had their hands 3-D scanned for “Exploration,” a sculpture that depicts the Webb telescope with three hands extending outward. From the Depths of Space to the Walls of a Gallery 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z It is the very essence of the Bad Movie We Love, in part because it reminds us of so many other Bad Movies We Love, except that it stars Gerard Butler as a brilliant astrophysicist. From The Room to Geostorm: how to make a movie so bad that people will love it 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Rupp is not an astrophysicist, but she is trained as both an artist and an engineer. In the galleries: Collaged drawings that zig and zag at Adah Rose There was a moment when I got out of high school that I decided I was going to quit trying to be in showbiz and become an astrophysicist. Q&A: Paul Feig on 'Other Space' and the comedy of close quarters 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z If Walter Murch is an amateur astrophysicist, the rest of us are amateur amateurs. Swimming against the tide: Lawrence Weschler on 'Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of Astrophysicists' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z The show will be called Star Talk, and the astrophysicist will host pop culture celebrities and science commentary from people like Bill Nye, the Washington Post reports. Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Getting His Own Talk Show 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Under the guidance of Mr. Wolf, an astrophysicist and madman, she is teasing out the concept of infinity. SCR's 'Mr. Wolf' sharply provokes, then turns blunt 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z That's what Gilbert led with, recounting how he started out writing text adventures at the age of 12 on a programmable calculator that his dad, an astrophysicist, brought home from work one day. PAX Australia: Ron Gilbert's advice for games makers 2013-07-20T00:54:46Z “I’m not a research scientist,” he acknowledged, like his good friend and fellow science celebrity Neil deGrasse Tyson, who climbed the academic ranks as an astrophysicist. The March for Science was a moment made for Bill Nye 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z The final attraction of a wonderful place, the faraway disc's visibility depends on its tilt, as the astrophysicists in charge change the angle of their peering into outer space. Britain's best views: Cheshire 2010-12-25T00:01:00Z The astrophysicist and host of “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” kept his response short and right on point. Neil deGrasse Tyson responds to creationist’s call to end the U.S. space program: “That’s messed up” 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z All week children can meet scientists and astrophysicists who will be on hand to lead workshops, demonstrations, discussions, and, of course, answer many questions. For Children Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The lesson is not merely a wake-up call for astrophysicists, but for all of us, for anyone with the misapprehension that science somehow marches on separate from the rest of culture. Neil deGrasse Tyson Explores the Symbiosis Between War and Astrophysics 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z In the March 8 review of Brian Greene’s “Until the End of Time,” the astrophysicist is quoted lamenting that “all that lives will die” and “nothing is everlasting.” What Lorrie Moore Doesn’t Know About Jane Austen … and Other Letters 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z That monumental discovery sparked decades of epic debates about the vastness and origins of the universe, and they involved a clash of titans, the Russian-American nuclear physicist George Gamow and the British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. When the Big Bang Was Just a Theory 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z It evokes tunneling to extract resources in mines, but also space-time wormholes, said Gueye, who trained as an astrophysicist. In Dakar, African Art Speaks in All Its Voices 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The master of the if/then statement, the astrophysicist who is all about the data, becomes passionate on the subject. Star talker: Neil deGrasse Tyson on fame, education and tweets 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z “Find me a Rhodes scholar who is also an astrophysicist!” ‘How Google Works,’ by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The line of dolls, which includes an astrophysicist, a conservationist, an entomologist, a marine biologist and a nature photojournalist, are long overdue, said Nadkarni, 65. She started climbing trees as a kid. Then this ecologist helped create scientist Barbie. 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z An hour from Vicuña is the region’s most powerful tourist telescope, run by a retired astrophysicist. 21,500 pesos. In Chile’s Elqui Valley, Intergalactic Sightseeing Is the Star 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Stripped of his powers and his mystical hammer Mjolnir, he joins forces with a sceptical astrophysicist - played by Natalie Portman - to stop his nefarious brother Loki wreaking havoc in Asgard and closer to home. Big Thor 2011-04-26T07:24:15Z A British astrophysicist said that pondering the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" could "tear the mind asunder." Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z The astrophysicist considers contemporary issues driving people apart through the lens of science. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The thought occurs that the number of astrophysicists who must deal with such problems may be exactly one. Star talker: Neil deGrasse Tyson on fame, education and tweets 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z In the spring of 2003, as the United States launched its invasion of Iraq, the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was attending the annual conference of the Space Foundation, in Colorado Springs. Neil deGrasse Tyson on How Space Scientists Have Long Been an ‘Accessory to War’ 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The astrophysicist Sir Bernard Lovell once said that trying to explain why there is something rather than nothing could "tear the individual's mind asunder". Why Does the World Exist? One Man's Quest for the Big Answer by Jim Holt – review 2013-07-05T16:32:01Z The astrophysicist says that “Starry Messenger,” a call for science, exploration and rational thought as paths to a better life on Earth, may be his “most important.” Neil deGrasse Tyson book ‘Starry Messenger’ coming in 2022 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z In tightly composed essays, a noted astrophysicist and novelist argues that science need not be in conflict with spirituality. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Adam Becker is an astrophysicist and the author of “What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics.” From Black Holes to Breakfast, Three Books Show How Einstein’s Legacy Lives On 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Sir Bernard Lovell, a British astrophysicist, said it could “tear the individual’s mind asunder.” Books of The Times: ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-02T18:37:46Z “This kind of approach, infusing the display with actual science, actual data, connects you as never before,” said Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist and director of the Planetarium. Hayden Planetarium to Reopen at Limited Capacity 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z After a career as an astrophysicist and now a web developer for an educational foundation, Donahue still occasionally does the thing he named: “Some shows – like Game Of Thrones – are just too irresistible.” From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z For once, the work seemed to be trailing residue of its curious genesis, perhaps the ideas contributed by an astrophysicist. Dance Review: ?Tool Is Loot,? With Jennifer Lacey and Wally Cardona 2011-09-23T21:43:32Z Kunis plays a young Russian woman with the unlikely name of Jupiter Jones, whose father, an astrophysicist, was killed by thugs when she was an infant. "Jupiter Ascending": Wachowskis in Outer Space 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z A few days later I reached Dr. Geller, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., and the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, known as the “genius grant.” All the World in a ‘Slice’ of Art 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z An astrophysicist at the University of Rochester and a founder of the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos and Culture, Frank argues that we earthlings should adopt a new narrative of our history and future. An Astrophysical Approach to Our Environmental Crisis 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Its discoverers — the astronomer Mike Brown and the astrophysicist Konstantin Batygin — weigh in on its makeup, including whether its moons have potential for life. What’s on TV Tuesday: Lin-Manuel Miranda in ‘Drunk History,’ and Dolly Parton on ‘The Voice’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z “I think we can deduce that people get scared too easily,” said astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, who helps track the bumper-car ballet of satellites higher up, in orbit. There’s a ton of crap in the sky we haven’t shot down (yet) 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z The 1962 Madeline L’Engle fantasy, about two siblings and a friend traveling throughout time and space to find their missing astrophysicist father, was reportedly one of Lee’s favorite books growing up. Frozen Director to Adapt A Wrinkle in Time 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z But at least he got to see Gerard Butler as a brilliant astrophysicist. From The Room to Geostorm: how to make a movie so bad that people will love it 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Last night’s episode of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s hit series, “Cosmos,” finally addressed the issue of climate change head-on, taking down a number of the most insidious myths propagated by climate deniers in the process. Neil deGrasse Tyson destroys more climate myths: Yes, we’re the problem 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Boneland imagines Colin as an adult, a troubled, brilliant astrophysicist who can remember every single thing that has happened to him since the age of 13, but nothing before. Alan Garner: a life in books 2012-08-17T21:45:03Z Eddie Redmayne has won the Academy Award for lead actor for his portrayal of famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything." Oscars 2015: Eddie Redmayne wins lead actor for 'The Theory of Everything' 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Whenever I’m in the room with another actor, I think: Maybe she could have been an astrophysicist, but I had no choice. Viola Davis and Edie Falco Talk Race, Sex and Life Before Stardom 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Others condemned the astrophysicist for implying that intentional attacks and accidental deaths were comparable. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Tweet on Mass Shooting Deaths Strikes a Nerve 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Seeking a public intellectual of their own, some black atheists have claimed the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, interpreting his arguments against teaching intelligent design in the classroom to be an endorsement of atheism. African-American Atheists 2011-11-25T23:54:27Z The aforementioned astronaut, astrophysicist, Marine Corp veteran and Olympic cyclist hardly fit that description. Mansplaining: how not to talk to female Nasa astronauts 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z And not just an astrophysicist, but one searching for wormholes, those plot-friendly tubes across space and time. Hollywood teams up with scientists to make sci-fi more believable 2012-06-09T04:32:03Z You might get a German portrait photographer, a Serbian astrophysicist or a Roman coffee aficionado for, say, a quick afternoon drink to get restaurant suggestions or a half day spent as a guide's plus-one. T Magazine: Freund With Benefits 2012-09-12T19:00:54Z Assembling a motley crew of friends and acquaintances — including a politician, a tango instructor and an astrophysicist — Mr. von Glasow elicits engrossing discussions of sex lives, self-esteem and psychological coping. | 'NoBody?s Perfect': The Devastating Legacy of Thalidomide 2010-04-16T00:54:00Z The Hubble Cantata LA Opera co-presents the West Coast premiere of this musical fable, enhanced by images from the Hubble Space Telescope, about an astrophysicist searching for his wife among the stars. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 8-15: 'The Hubble Cantata,' 'The Consul' and more 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z In theory, this is a fine idea for a book, and Ms. Levin, an astrophysicist, is in the ideal position to write it. Review: ‘Black Hole Blues’ Recounts the Quest to Find the Cosmic Kazoo 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z In a field estimated at 2,000 astrophysicists fully employed in research or teaching in higher education in the United States, Patterson believes that perhaps 15 are African American. Star talker: Neil deGrasse Tyson on fame, education and tweets 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z They include the news that astrophysicists Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox will feature in filmed skits and that comedian David Walliams will conduct red carpet interviews on 20 July, the final concert date. Jagger helps launch Python gigs 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Jon Stewart welcomed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson back to “The Daily Show” on Thursday night, who was practically bubbling over with excitement about what he described the “rising warmth from the public about learning science.” Neil deGrasse Tyson declares a geek revolution in amazing “Daily Show” interview 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Awesome, yes, made more so when "sung" by astrophysicist Steven Hawking. Record Store Day 2015: 10 of the oddest records to chase at the shops 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The honor was announced on Sunday in a YouTube video by Brian May, the former Queen guitarist who became an astrophysicist after the band broke up. Freddie Mercury Now Races Around the Sun 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z He’s one of the most famous astrophysicists on the planet, posing for GQ magazine, gracing a Superman comic, hosting “Cosmos” and appearing regularly on “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.” Star talker: Neil deGrasse Tyson on fame, education and tweets 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z About Those Visitors From Other Planets Before “The X-Files” there were cable-television U.F.O. shows, raising spooky questions and little shivers of wonder about the cosmos, with testimony from assorted astrophysicists and freethinkers. Movie Review: ‘Sirius,’ a Documentary Directed by Amardeep Kaleka 2013-05-30T23:23:20Z For example: Margaret Landis, 30, is an astrophysicist who collects texts related to the cometary discoveries of Maria Mitchell, the first female astronomer in the United States. Meet the New Old Book Collectors 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z That’s how Mack, a theoretical astrophysicist, begins her engrossing, elegant timeline of the cosmos. 13 Books to Watch For in August 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z The new film, titled Interstellar, is said to be based on scientific theories developed by Kip Thorne, a theoretical physicist, gravitational physicist and astrophysicist at Caltech, the California Institute of Technology. Christopher Nolan's next film mission to go Interstellar 2013-01-10T10:40:48Z After Mr. Mercury’s death, Mr. May became an astrophysicist, a choice presaged by “'39,” a bouncy song, Mr. May explained onstage, about Einstein’s clock paradox. Queen + Adam Lambert Take On Madison Square Garden 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z He’s a military man whose extended absences from home have distanced him from his wife and three kids; she’s an astrophysicist, ready to move on. Review | ‘Lost in Space’ is adrift in that vast area between shows for kids and shows for grown-ups 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Arthur Eddington, the pre-eminent astrophysicist of his day, ridiculed the result. Black and light 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Surely the producers and I could convince ourselves, given that his participation would mean an immediate green-light, the part was appropriate for him, that the monosyllabic action hero could plausibly play a British astrophysicist? How to avoid writing an awful screenplay 2013-04-22T22:05:00Z Ally is an astrophysicist and a glam rocker, so I always keep learning new things about the universe from her. Exclusive: An Excerpt from the Sequel to Rob Sheffield’s Love is a Mix Tape 2013-05-29T15:56:47Z For a gifted young astrophysicist, her puzzled use of the classically sexist Who-companion line – "But I don't understand!" – has to go down as one of its most definitive renditions. The Mind Robber: Doctor Who classic episode #4 2013-03-28T13:01:24Z Each choreographed an “empty solo,” performed for an expert in a field other than dance, including an architect, an astrophysicist, a medical supply salesman, a sommelier and a film editor. Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey?s ?Tool Is Loot? 2011-09-21T22:23:13Z Before the pandemic, “trillion” was a word more commonly uttered by astrophysicists and obscure central bankers, not everyday Americans. How Many Is a Trillion? 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z The story involves two astrophysicists, “twin souls,” born on the same day 29 years ago. ‘How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky,’ by Lydia Netzer Both men recently appeared with Williams at a convention of stargazers and astrophysicists in Cardiff, where the artist performed a piece called The Astronomer. Bedwyr Williams: why I'm taking a space observatory to Venice 2013-04-14T17:00:01Z A team of Princeton astrophysicists has now determined conclusively that energy close to the event horizon of black hole M87* is pushing outward, not inward. Galactic 'lightsabers': Answering longstanding questions about jets from black holes 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z The team says the latest insight, linking the behavior of our Sun and the magnetic activities of other stars, could have implications for astrophysicists to rethink their current models of stellar magnetic activity. Scientists uncover aurora-like radio emission above a sunspot 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z When astrophysicists telescopically squint just so at the Crab nebula—much like they do to perceive its crustacean shape—they see hints that it may have exploded in a similar fashion. See JWST’s Spectacular New View of the Crab Nebula 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z "It's as if they have four Jupiters acting like wrecking balls, throwing everything out of whack," said Stephen Kane, UC Riverside astrophysicist and author of the journal paper. Giant planets cast a deadly pall 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Worse, astrophysicists using the Hubble Space Telescope, then relatively new, had determined that the cosmos was between eight billion and 12 billion years old. A Possible Crisis in the Cosmos Could Lead to a New Understanding of the Universe 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Hawn said that while trying to articulate her experience with the astrophysicist, her memory was vivid. Goldie Hawn recounts alien encounter: ‘Oh, my God. I think I made contact with outer space’ 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z MOND’s success as a dark matter alternative has been limited, however, because most astrophysicists remain convinced that the universe we see around us is better accounted for by theories that incorporate the mysterious invisible substance. ‘Modified’ Gravity May Make Planet Nine Disappear 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z “I’ve never seen something like this before,” says Jenny Wagner, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Bahamas Advanced Study Institute and Conferences. Many-Mirrored Galaxies Deepen Dark Matter Mystery 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Yet the Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists squared this apparent circle by explaining that the brightness of these early galaxies does not require cosmologists to reconsider their conceptions about the history of the universe. New James Webb data offers potential explanation for "impossible" galaxies at cosmic dawn 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z “If you ask me,” astrophysicist Michael Turner told Time magazine at the time, “either we’re close to a breakthrough or we’re at our wits’ end.” A Possible Crisis in the Cosmos Could Lead to a New Understanding of the Universe 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z They add to a clue: three blips spotted by star-tracking sensors on the Hubble Space Telescope in its first 20 years, says Hilke Schlichting, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Puzzling objects found far beyond Neptune hint at second Kuiper belt 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Using new simulations, a Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists now has discovered that these galaxies likely are not so massive after all. Bursts of star formation explain mysterious brightness at cosmic dawn 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Now astrophysicists from the Niels Bohr Institute suggest a novel method which may help resolve this tension. Colliding neutron stars provide a new way to measure the expansion of the Universe 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z “My heart’s there with you as this precious sample is recovered,” Queen’s lead guitarist Brian May, who’s also an astrophysicist, said in a prerecorded message. NASA’s first asteroid samples retrieved after capsule lands in Utah desert 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z As astrophysicists say, these faraway black holes are “overmassive” with respect to their hosts compared to those we find in galaxies around us today. JWST Finds Strange Harmony in Early Galaxies and Black Holes 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z The final individual award went to Heino Falcke, an astrophysicist at Radboud University in the Netherlands, for his role in producing high-resolution images of what surrounds black holes as leader of the Event Horizon Telescope. Balzan Prizes recognize achievements in study of human evolution, black holes with $840,000 awards 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Yet an astrophysicist simulating the black hole would not get sucked into their laptop by the simulated gravitational field. What Does It ‘Feel’ Like to Be a Chatbot? 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z "The closest analogy to his approach to the scientific method is the way that a bull approaches a china shop," said Ethan R. Siegel, Ph.D., a theoretical astrophysicist and science communicator. Harvard professor Avi Loeb says he found interstellar objects in the deep sea. Others are skeptical 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Steve Desch, an astrophysicist at Arizona State University, recently told the New York Times: “What the public is seeing in Loeb is not how science works. And they shouldn’t go away thinking that.” How Wealthy UFO Fans Helped Fuel Fringe Beliefs 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z If true, this increasingly well-informed speculation would finally answer one of astrophysicists’ classic “chicken-or-egg” problems: Did the central supermassive black holes form first, or did their host galaxies? JWST Finds Strange Harmony in Early Galaxies and Black Holes 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z To the eye of an astrophysicist, however, the beauty is deeper. Rare ‘Pinwheel’ Stars Are a Beautiful Astronomical Puzzle 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Shouldn’t all movies feature a disillusioned astrophysicist, particularly one as charmingly doleful as Stanfield’s character? Review: 'Haunted Mansion' feels like the ghost of a movie 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z That data sat for five years, a source of no contention until Avi Loeb, a theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard University, and Amir Siraj, then an undergraduate student at the university, stumbled across it in 2019. Avi Loeb’s Deep Dive for Alien Life Is Making Other Scientists Gasp 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Now a professor studying exoplanets at the University of California, Irvine, Shields is one of just 26 Black female astrophysicists in American history. Only 26 Black Women Have Ever Become Astrophysicists in the U.S. Here’s One’s Story 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z “It was influential; it was visionary,” says Feryal Özel, an astrophysicist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, of Oppenheimer’s work on black holes and neutron stars, the superdense corpses of expired massive stars. Oppenheimer Almost Discovered Black Holes Before He Became ‘Destroyer of Worlds’ 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z She is extremely accomplished—at the same time an astrophysicist, engineer and astronaut—not to mention a general “scientist.” Here’s What Physics Tells Us about Barbie’s World 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Generally, astronomers and astrophysicists search for extraterrestrial life by looking for biosignatures — such as water, oxygen or chlorophyll — on other planets. How scientists will know they've found 'alien life' 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Katie Mack, an astrophysicist who holds the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, says that these findings provide clarity on various uncertainties surrounding quasar behavior. Time Flowed Five Times Slower Shortly after the Big Bang 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z “They’re at the center of a lot of open questions in astronomy and astrophysics,” says astrophysicist Vanessa Graber of the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona. Ultracold Gases Can Probe Neutron Star Guts 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z I long for a time when I’m on a plane and someone asks what I do and I say, “I’m an astrophysicist” and they don’t show this incredible surprise. "Be your own role model": What one Black UC Irvine astrophysicist had to overcome 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Working with my then-adviser, the Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, I analyzed the U.S. government data to show how the trajectory and other properties of IM’s fireball were consistent with the meteor having an interstellar origin. Have We Found Fragments of a Meteor from Another Star? 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z “We needed a force that would be responsible for this acceleration,” says Mathilde Jauzac, an astrophysicist at Durham University in the England. Europe’s Euclid Space Telescope Is Launching a New Era in Studies of the ‘Dark Universe’ 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z But astrophysicists expected there were other phenomena that would generate enough high-energy neutrinos to show up in IceCube. Neutrinos Build a Ghostly Map of the Milky Way 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z “We can create these models that basically let us know the time of arrival to precisions that rival atomic clocks,” says Thankful Cromartie, an astrophysicist at Cornell University and a member of NANOGrav. Scientists Thrill at First Hints of Cosmic ‘Hum’ from Giant Gravitational Waves 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Marcelle Soares-Santos, an astrophysicist at the University of Michigan who was not involved in the work, acknowledged that while this was early evidence, the results were enticing. The Cosmos Is Thrumming With Gravitational Waves, Astronomers Find 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z So far, this method hasn’t been able to trace where exactly these low-frequency waves are coming from, said Marc Kamionkowski, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University who was not involved with the research. Scientists have finally ‘heard’ the chorus of gravitational waves that ripple through the universe 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z “It’s incompatible with us existing,” says Ue-Li Pen, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Perimeter Institute. Euclid telescope to seek source of dark energy—the biggest mystery in the universe 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z “We’re seeing all of these incredibly violent and energetic processes,” said Regina M. Caputo, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland who was not involved with the IceCube project. Neutrinos Build a Ghostly Map of the Milky Way 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z “The real test is going to be in the detection of individual events,” says Shobita Satyapal, an astrophysicist at George Mason University, who was not involved in the new research and calls it exciting. Scientists Thrill at First Hints of Cosmic ‘Hum’ from Giant Gravitational Waves 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z The person most likely to answer them may be Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University, who has been studying the galactic center for decades. Strange Giant Filaments Reveal a Mystery at the Milky Way’s Heart 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z There she was studying botany until she attended a lecture by astrophysicist Arthur Stanley Eddington that would change the course of her academic career and her life. This Astronomer Discovered What the Stars Were Made Of, And Few Believed Her Discovery 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z “It’s a fantastic gold mine for any kind of science,” says astrophysicist Yannick Mellier of the Astrophysics Institute of Paris and leader of the Euclid Consortium. Euclid telescope to seek source of dark energy—the biggest mystery in the universe 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z From ghostlike particles, astrophysicists have pieced together a new map of the galaxy we live in. Neutrinos Build a Ghostly Map of the Milky Way 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z But his main problem was that, as an astrophysicist, he simply did not have the knowledge to counter Bigtree’s torrent of anti-vaccination propaganda. Column: Sorry, Joe Rogan: Scientists should never 'debate' anti-vaccine quacks. Here's why 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z About six years ago astrophysicist Heino Falcke of Radboud University in the Netherlands started thinking more deeply about the physics involved in these processes and whether the event horizon was a necessary component. This Is The Way The Universe Ends: By Evaporating 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z University of Chicago astrophysicist Daniel Fabrycky, who was not involved with the new research, says such upcoming observations make these kinds of studies especially valuable. We Live in the Rarest Type of Planetary System 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z “There has been a lot of discussion about why the Voyager data doesn’t match IBEX,” says Katia Ferrière, an astrophysicist at the University of Toulouse in France, who was not involved with the study. Scientists Make Best-Yet Map of Solar System’s Interstellar Boundaries 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z The Parker probe is named after Eugene N. Parker, a University of Chicago astrophysicist who first predicted the existence of the solar wind in 1958. How Solar Wind Flows From the Sun Like Water From a Shower Head 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z In the 1950s astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer argued that plasma might be contained more effectively in a doughnut chamber with a twisted tunnel wall. What Is the Future of Fusion Energy? 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z The general thrust of the panel’s discussions and the call for more data was welcome news to Abraham “Avi” Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University. NASA UFO team calls for higher quality data in first public meeting 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Those who live and work at the South Pole, whether dishwasher or astrophysicist, approach the ice with a sense of awe that borders on religious conviction. Astrophysics and stale beer: What life is like working at the South Pole 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z But while that event is unlikely, it happens about once a year, on average, somewhere on the planet, according to a calculation by astrophysicist Avi Loeb of Harvard University. A Meteorite Fell in Their Bedroom. Here’s What Happened Next 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Two leading proponents of a cyclic universe, astrophysicists Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University and Anna Ijjas of New York University, declined to comment for this article. The Universe Began with a Bang, Not a Bounce, New Studies Find 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z This means that by measuring gravitational waves, astrophysicists like me can peek directly into the heart of some of these most spectacular phenomena in the universe. Gravitational wave detector LIGO is back online after 3 years of upgrades 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z “We’re really looking forward to getting back to observing,” says Patrick Brady, an astrophysicist at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and LIGO’s spokesperson. Gravitational-Wave Search Resumes after Three Years and Lots of Headaches 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z I am a queer and non-binary astrophysicist, a victim of workplace bullying and abuse, and, like so many before me, am making the heart-breaking decision to leave academia. An Inclusive Research Environment Starts at the Top 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z “We know that Betelgeuse will explode soon, but ‘soon’ is sometime within the next 10,000 to 100,000 years,” says Jared Goldberg, an astrophysicist at the Flatiron Institute in New York City. Betelguese’s Brightening Raises Hopes for a Supernova Spectacle 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z “Most supernovae and tidal disruption events only last for a couple of months before fading away,” said Philip Wiseman, an astrophysicist at the University of Southampton and the lead author of the new paper. The Biggest Explosion in the Cosmos Just Keeps Going 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z “Just knowing that water could exist on a rocky planet around another star would be a huge deal,” says Ryan MacDonald, an astrophysicist at the University of Michigan. Did JWST Just Find Water on a Rocky Exoplanet? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z “I’m still excited.... There’s so many things that we can clarify if we just have a few more detections,” says Lieke van Son, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Gravitational-Wave Search Resumes after Three Years and Lots of Headaches 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z The family plans to meet with an astrophysicist who will further examine the object. Possible meteorite crashes into New Jersey home, no injuries 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z “Even subtle astronomical events like this one make me excited and happy to share them,” astrophysicist Gianluca Masi, the project’s founder, said in an email. 1st lunar eclipse of 2023 dims full moon ever so slightly 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z “I’ve waited a long time to be able to do these observations,” says Olivia Jones, an astrophysicist at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh and the lead author of the study. JWST Spots Planetary Building Blocks In A Surprising Galaxy 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z “I’m not surprised that this result is ambiguous,” says Jacob Bean, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago, who was not a part of the research team. Did JWST Just Find Water on a Rocky Exoplanet? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z "This is what astronomers and astrophysicists have been wanting to see for more than half a century," said astrophysicist and study co-author Kazunori Akiyama of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Haystack Observatory. New image reveals violent events near a supermassive black hole 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Harvard astrophysicist and spacecraft tracker Jonathan McDowell will be more excited whenever Starship actually lands and returns intact from orbit. What to know about 1st test flight of SpaceX’s big Starship 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z Ziri Younsi, an astrophysicist at University College London, who is a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration but did not take part in the new research, agrees. See the Sharp New Image of an Iconic Black Hole 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Decades ago, astrophysicists brimmed with hope of discovering dark matter, the unseen mass that lets galaxies spin far faster than their stars’ gravity would allow by itself. Dark Matter Hunters Needs Fresh Answers 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The recent coronal mass ejection’s effect may also have been amplified by another solar phenomenon observed last week, called a coronal hole, says W. Dean Pesnell, an astrophysicist on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory mission. Northern Lights Dance across U.S. because of ‘Stealthy’ Sun Eruptions 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The esteemed Briton, also an astrophysicist and animal welfare advocate, received the title of knight bachelor “for services to Music and to Charity,” according to the Gazette — the official publication of the British royal family. We will, we will knight you: Queen rocker Brian May formally knighted by King Charles 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Instead, astrophysicists believe the best defense is to knock asteroids off course long before they make their final approach, like a spaceborne billiards game yet with higher stakes. This asteroid is most likely to hit Earth, with a possible impact on Valentine's Day 2046 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Marshall’s enthusiasm for their research also caught the eye of judge Katrien Kolenberg, an astrophysicist and science communicator at the University of Antwerp. Lord of the Rings–quoting performance wins this year’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z If astrophysicists don’t take big, new and different swings at dark matter, the search will only stagnate until it atrophies. Dark Matter Hunters Needs Fresh Answers 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The ball of optical, ultra-violet and infrared light has since been intensely observed by astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen. What happens when two neutron stars collide? A ‘perfect’ explosion. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The astrophysicists came up with a space dust shield by borrowing concepts from their usual research focused on how planets form around distant stars. Researchers want to create a dust shield in space to fight climate change 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z “It would likely be so low-mass that its gravitational influence would be relatively small,” says Eliot Quataert, a theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton University. Has Anyone Created a Black Hole on Earth? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Meg Schwamb, an astrophysicist at Queen’s University Belfast, was the astronomer who proposed doing the Rubin Observatory’s twilight studies early in its 10-year lifetime, before satellite constellations made these observations impossible. Satellite Constellations Are an Existential Threat for Astronomy 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The new research is important, says Matteo Cantiello, an astrophysicist at the Flatiron Institute in New York City, who was not involved in the study. Star Cores Spin Surprisingly Slowly—Scientists Now Think They Know Why 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z However, astrophysicists calculate that this type of star, known as a black dwarf, would take so long to cool that there are not yet any black dwarf stars anywhere in the entire universe. A weird, dead magnetized star has a solid surface — and a ring 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z “While we did not calculate these explicitly, we know from the space program that this effort would be daunting,” Kenyon, an astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, said in an email. Researchers want to create a dust shield in space to fight climate change 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Smart, quiet Deivinho smiles unconsciously at a volcano demonstration in class and wants to be an astrophysicist, specifically to be part of a program that will one day colonize Mars. Review: Brazilian family drama 'Mars One' offers hope amid political turmoil 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z The 75-year-old rock musician, astrophysicist and animal welfare advocate has received the title of Knight Bachelor “for services to Music and to Charity,” according to the Gazette — the official publication of the British royal family. Queen's Brian May celebrates knighthood: 'Thank you and much love from Sir Bri' 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z The musician, astrophysicist and animal welfare advocate is knighted for services to music and charity, after more than 50 years in one of Britain's most popular rock bands. New Year Honours 2023: Brian May and Lionesses on list 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Sarah Tuttle, an astrophysicist at the University of Washington, characterizes the question of whether Mr. Webb was a homophobe as unanswerable and a distraction. How Naming the James Webb Telescope Turned Into a Fight Over Homophobia 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Nuclear astrophysicist Sanjana Curtis explains how the heaviest elements are made and why it’s no exaggeration to say that we are made of stardust. How Metabolism, Heavy Elements and Quantum Entanglement Really Work 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z More recently, it was revealed he had posed as astrophysicist Stephen Hawking using the same electronic voice technology as the professor to hoax Princess Diana. Victor Lewis-Smith: Journalist and satirist dies aged 65 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z JWST’s rapid discovery of early galaxies “might be straining our current understanding of how these early dark matter structures form,” says Rachel Somerville, an astrophysicist at the Flatiron Institute in New York City. Astronomers Grapple with JWST’s Discovery of Early Galaxies 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z There is a theory, seriously discussed by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, among others, that what we understand to be "reality" is actually a type of elaborate computer simulation. Kanye's tragicomic, antisemitic Alex Jones meltdown: Absurdism in the service of fascism 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z “This controversy should restart the discussion about why on earth this telescope is named after him,” said Jason Wright, a Penn State astrophysicist who signed the critics’ petition. How Naming the James Webb Telescope Turned Into a Fight Over Homophobia 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Researchers from other countries will also have access to the orbiting laboratory, says Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at the Australian National University in Canberra. China’s Space Station Is Almost Complete—How Will Scientists Use It? 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z It will require astrophysicists to rethink some of their dominant theories as to how and why neutron stars form. This star could be a bizarre "strange star" made of matter that shouldn't exist 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The university’s choice placed “every male astronomer at the University of Leiden under suspicion,” says Dave Clements, an astrophysicist at Imperial College London. Prominent Dutch astronomer barred for ‘extremely unacceptable’ behavior 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z “That played into this whole idea of aliens as salvation — you know, aliens were going to teach us things,” Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester, told me recently. The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z When Dr. Oluseyi wrote his essay on James Webb, he took to task journalists and an astrophysicist, whom he did not name, for not rigorously researching the accusations. How Naming the James Webb Telescope Turned Into a Fight Over Homophobia 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z “Everyone was freaking out,” says Charlotte Mason, an astrophysicist at the University of Copenhagen. JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Researchers, led by Laetitia Delrez, astrophysicist at the University of Liège, in Belgium, wanted to confirm the planet was really there and learn more about it. A newly-discovered exoplanet orbiting a cool star is remarkably like Earth 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Dr. Ethan Siegel, an astrophysicist and science writer who has been critical of Loeb's work in the past, told Salon that he believes Loeb's hypothesis is a "travesty" that diminishes the work of other astronomers. Why one Harvard scientist believes alien technology may be sitting on the ocean floor 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z When Frank, who trained as a theoretical astrophysicist rather than an observational astronomer, attended the Houston meeting, he had been writing about how civilizations alter their planetary atmospheres. The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Several prominent astrophysicists in interviews supported Dr. Oluseyi but declined to talk publicly. How Naming the James Webb Telescope Turned Into a Fight Over Homophobia 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z “There were galaxies everywhere,” says Illingworth, now an astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Like art restorers discovering a hidden image under an old master, astrophysicists have reprocessed data used to create the first image of a black hole and sifted out only the light from its “photon ring.” News at a glance: New gene therapy, Europe’s drought, and a black hole’s photon ring 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z It was an infrared telescope, which would give astrophysicists a new angle on what was going on out there, but I didn’t think it could have the impact Hubble had. How the Webb Telescope Expanded My Universe 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Some incoming charged particles become trapped in the Earth’s magnetic field, forming two belts above the atmosphere known as the Van Allen radiation belts after the discoverer James A. Van Allen, an American astrophysicist. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Thus, many astrophysicists conclude that Earth will be vaporized along with Mercury and Venus. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z David Spergel, a renowned theoretical astrophysicist and current president of the Simons Foundation in New York, agrees. JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Lorenzo Spina, an astrophysicist at the Astronomical Observatory of Padua in Italy and an author of that study, thinks these chemical differences can expose the remains of disembodied worlds. The Juicy Secrets of Stars That Eat Their Planets 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z An astrophysicist marrying an economist feels like the start of a joke. Review | The big bang created the universe. What created the big bang? 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z A common problem for astrophysicists is the “pollution” from electromagnetic radiation pervading our surroundings from communication systems in general. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., said that it’s not unusual for space debris to be found on land after an uncontrolled re-entry. A Large Object Landed on His Sheep Farm. It Came From Space. 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Dr Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at the Australian National University, was called to examine the object. Space debris Australia: Piece of SpaceX capsule crashes to Earth in field 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z “I think the UAP stuff is emerging in a climate where we are already discussing life in the universe in a new way,” says Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester. With New Study, NASA Seeks the Science behind UFOs 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Trump wanted to send astronauts there by 2024, and Zurbuchen, the astrophysicist in charge of NASA’s science mission directorate, saw an opportunity to add to NASA’s science budget at the same time. A New Private Moon Race Kicks Off Soon 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z “They’re designed for a single burn,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics and space tracking expert, tells The Verge. It’s time for another round of anxiety over a Chinese rocket booster falling back to Earth 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z “It’s going to be the same story,” said Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who tracks the comings and goings of objects in space. Heads Up, Again: China Set to Launch Space Station Module With Giant Rocket 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z The astrophysicist and director of the Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre explained: "We'll project on to it some of the latest data from the Sun and beautiful images of the Moon." Giant Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank to become space light show 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z “That was always out there,” said Jane Rigby, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the telescope’s operations manager. Webb Telescope Raises Curtain on a New, Ancient Universe 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z “CubeSats are not toys,” says Amir Caspi, a solar astrophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute and an author of the study. ‘CubeSats are not toys.’ Tiny satellites’ scientific output can pack a big punch 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Going from astrophysicist to a god presents quite the learning curve for Foster. Why Natalie Portman felt better than ever with reimagined role in 'Thor: Love and Thunder' 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Dr. Jane Foster, astrophysicist, had an entire life before Thor crashed into her life, Love and Thunder matter of factly points out, and it’s what she got back to after he left. Thor: Love and Thunder’s a scattershot fairy tale about being friends with your ex 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Avi Loeb, a well-regarded Harvard University astrophysicist, has raised millions of dollars for the Galileo Project, which will scan the skies for UFOs. Pentagon UFO study led by researcher who believes in the supernatural 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z “It’s all probability,” David Malaspina, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado focusing on cosmic dust impacts on spacecraft, tells The Verge. Why getting hit by space dust is an unavoidable aspect of space travel 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z NASA’s independent study team will be led by astrophysicist David Spergel, president of the Simons Foundation. News at a glance: Webb telescope dinged, U.S.-Russia research paused, and NASA’s UFO study 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The study team, to be led by astrophysicist David Spergel, will attempt to identify what data is out there on UAPs and figure out how to best capture data on UAPs in the future. NASA is putting together a research team to study UFOs 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z “For pretty much all of North America, this is a tremendous viewing opportunity,” said Madhulika Guhathakurta, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Md. A Total Lunar Eclipse in Prime-Time 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z “It’s so famous because it’s a gorgeous sunset,” said Jackie Faherty, senior scientist and astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History. Manhattanhenge Is Back for Picture-Perfect Sunsets on New York’s Grid 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z Anthony Pullen, an astrophysicist at New York University, who is unaffiliated with the study, is cautiously optimistic about near-future tests of its core ideas. Astronomers Might See Dark Matter by Staring into the Void 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Astronomers and astrophysicists have generally searched for extraterrestrial life by looking for biosignatures — such as water, oxygen or chlorophyll — on other planets. Scientist says interstellar travel might be possible without spaceships 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Hawkins, a former astrophysicist, became fascinated with Maya culture after she began working in science education. What did the ancient Maya see in the stars? Their descendants team up with scientists to find out 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z These are pilots you might see in a Calvin Klein ad; and Kelly McGillis — as Charlie, an astrophysicist who lectures on enemy capabilities — is the one who’d be wearing the Calvins. Get ready for 'Top Gun: Maverick.' Here's where to watch the 1986 original 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Aki Roberge, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, points out that astronomers don’t even know if there is another world like our own out there at all. Our Sun Could Someday Reveal the Surfaces of Alien Earths 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z “The impact on the Russian space program is going to be disastrous,” said Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics, which is operated by Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution. China, U.S. are racing to make billions from mining the moon’s minerals 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z For the last couple of decades, astronomers and astrophysicists have generally searched for extraterrestrial life by looking for biosignatures — such as water, oxygen or chlorophyll — on other planets. Are we looking for extraterrestrial intelligence all wrong? 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z “This is an extraordinary validation of general relativity,” said Michael Johnson, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Supermassive black hole seen at the center of our galaxy 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Half a decade afterward, a few dozen of the astronomers and astrophysicists laboring in this obscure corner of astronomy agreed on the formal goal of building a virtual planet-scale radio telescope to observe that shadow. The First Picture of the Black Hole at the Milky Way's Heart Has Been Revealed 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The early stages of reionization are relatively simple to re-create because the universe was relatively dark and uniform then, explains Aaron Smith, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who helped develop THESAN. New Record-Breaking Simulation Sheds Light on ‘Cosmic Dawn’ 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z An astrophysicist set out to break a record crossing Death Valley. She set out to walk every street in Santa Cruz and walked into the story of her life 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z “Pursuing these tensions is a great way to learn about the universe,” says astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins University. Astronomers Gear Up to Grapple with the High-Tension Cosmos 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Last year astrophysicists at Harvard University speculated that a comet from the Oort Cloud may have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, rather than an asteroid. The most massive comet ever discovered yields clues as to how the solar system evolved 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z “Since I was 7 years old, it’s been my goal to become an astrophysicist and work for NASA, and discovering this system brought me that chance sooner than expected.” Imagine Another World. Now Imagine 5,000 More. 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Some astrophysicists favor the more mundane neutron star explanation, but others think the signal is dark matter. Are Telescopes the Only Way to Find Dark Matter? 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z “This finding gives us an opportunity to study a star in detail in the early universe,” study lead author Brian Welch, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, told Space.com. Hubble Space Telescope Spots Most Distant Star Ever Seen 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z “Gene represented to me the ideal physicist—brilliant and accomplished, personable, articulate, but also humble,” Robert Rosner, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago and a longtime colleague of Parker’s, said in the university statement. Eugene Parker, Namesake of NASA’s Sun-Touching Spacecraft, Dies at Age 94 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The wiry, sandy-haired astrophysicist is part of a growing subculture of endurance obsessives — men and women who have set their sights on completing outdoor running and hiking feats and breaking arcane records in the process. Blisters. Hallucinations: A hiker's grueling attempt to cross Death Valley in four days 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Kip Thorne, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology who won a Nobel Prize in 2017 for the discovery of gravitational waves, has working relationships with Russian astrophysicists that date from the 1960s. Russian Scientists Face Isolation Following Invasion of Ukraine 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z In a recent tweet, astrophysicist Amber Straughn wrote, “There are lots of us trying to do what we can to push back. This is total nonsense.” NASA Criticized for Ending Pronoun Project 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z He wanted to be a marine biologist or an astrophysicist, but after moving to Venezuela for college he earned a medical degree and joined UCV’s vaunted Institute of Biomedicine. A network of young scientists and doctors aims to rebuild Venezuela’s devastated public health system 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z At Vanderbilt University, astrophysicist Keivan Stassun was moved to act by data showing Black undergraduates are being pushed out of the field they want to study. Diversity researchers say fix the system in physics, not the students 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z To track down the water sources, the Caltech computational astrophysicist launched into a research rabbit hole. Blisters. Hallucinations: A hiker's grueling attempt to cross Death Valley in four days 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z That was a prediction of Eugene Parker, an astrophysicist who is the namesake of the mission he now works on. Venus Shows Its Hot, Cloudy Side 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z But the Moon’s lack of an atmosphere means that “there is no re-entry—just smash,” says Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who maintains catalogs of artificial space objects. The Moon could soon have a space junk problem 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Items include "rocks that have been jettisoned by larger meteorite impacts on the moon or on Mars," astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson said in an interview on Tuesday. Meteorites from Mars, outer space land on Christie's auction block 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z This black hole’s mass offers further evidence that astrophysicists’ formation models are correct—that solitary black holes can rise from the ashes of especially hefty stellar progenitors. Astronomers Find First-Ever Rogue Black Hole Adrift in the Milky Way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z It is “the first official report of decaying periods which reduced over time,” says Youjun Lu, a theoretical astrophysicist at the National Astronomical Observatories of China, who was not part of the team. Crash of the titans: imminent merger of giant black holes predicted 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z A self-described “Rose Parade nerd,” she said she and her husband, astrophysicist Jon Morse, will likely land in Pasadena with their Corgi and tabby cat. NASA veteran to become JPL's first woman director 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Others, like former National Science Foundation Director and astrophysicist France Córdova, find Loeb to be “imaginative” and “inspiring.” Why is a Harvard astrophysicist working with UFO buffs? 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson agreed: “The struggle continues, trying to get the general public to embrace all of the science the way they unwittingly embrace the science in their smartphones.” Americans’ trust in science now deeply polarized, poll shows 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z But if this “Hawking radiation” could somehow be stimulated and amplified, it might be detectable, according to some astrophysicists. Could Echoes from Colliding Black Holes Prove Stephen Hawking’s Greatest Prediction? 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z “The quest to measure the expansion rate goes back around 100 years,” says Adam Riess, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University. The James Webb Space Telescope Could Solve One of Cosmology’s Deepest Mysteries 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The death of an English astrophysicist who was killed by a stray bullet fired through the wall of a US apartment was "senseless", his sister has said. Matthew Willson: US shooting of British scientist 'senseless' 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z “He has mounted a scientific attack on a problem that is frustratingly fuzzy,” says Gregory Laughlin, an astrophysicist at Yale University. Why is a Harvard astrophysicist working with UFO buffs? 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z An English astrophysicist was killed by a stray bullet that travelled through a wall and hit him in his bed, US authorities have said. Georgia Shooting: British man Matthew Willson shot through wall 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z The 31-year-old astrophysicist was shot inside an apartment shortly after arriving to visit his girlfriend Katherine Shepard, whom he met while studying at Georgia State University, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. UK scientist visiting girlfriend in Atlanta area is killed by stray bullet: police 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z It was disappointing that Micaela Wells, a student at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, did not mention a single female physicist, astronomer or astrophysicist. Opinion | Women belong in history books 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z But even though magnetars can be thousands of times brighter than our sun, their eruptions are so brief and unpredictable that they're challenging for astrophysicists to find and study. Astronomers Report a Monstrous Eruption from a Supermagnetic Star 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z That would help scientists better understand the initial conditions of planet formation, says Patrick Hennebelle, a theoretical astrophysicist at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. Stars may form 10 times faster than thought 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z “Everywhere in the world, people watched the launch of James Webb,” said Michaël Gillon, a Belgian astrophysicist involved with the project. A World Divided by Covid and Other Ills United to Explore Space 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z “It was hard to sleep last night,” said Adam Riess, an astrophysicist and Nobel laureate who will use the Webb telescope to measure the expansion rate of the universe. Webb Telescope begins journey to see the dawn of starlight 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z “The entire astronomy community, given the broad range of anticipated science returns and discovery potential, has skin in the game” with the telescope, said Priyamvada Natarajan, an astrophysicist at Yale. Why the World’s Astronomers Are Very, Very Anxious Right Now 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Priyamvada Natarajan, an astrophysicist at Yale, and her colleagues are among those hoping to use Webb to find an answer to the origins of these black holes. Webb Telescope Prepares to Ascend, With an Eye Toward Our Origins 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z The Institute created a Time Allocation Committee including astronomers and astrophysicists from around the world. How astronomers decided where to point the most powerful space telescope NASA ever built 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z At a talk in mid-November hosted by Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn, astrophysicists Rebecca Oppenheimer and Natalie Batalha speculated on the chances that life exists on exoplanets somewhere in our galaxy. New Views across the Galaxy 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z “It’s absolutely great to have found a planet like this,” said Diana Valencia, an astrophysicist at the University of Toronto Scarborough who was not involved in the discovery. Metal Planet Orbits Its Star Every 7.7 Hours 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z “If we look at clouds and see polarization, that would be a smoking gun,” says astrophysicist Philip Kaaret of the University of Iowa, who worked on a rival polarimeter proposal that lost out to IXPE. NASA telescope to study how extreme cosmic objects sculpt x-ray light 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Given recent history, one of their original discoverers, astrophysicist Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University, does not foresee research on FRBs quieting any time soon. Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Are Finally Coming into Focus 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Staying silent so as not to wake her sleeping child, Casey jubilantly logged into Slack and messaged her colleague on the project, Jeyhan Kartaltepe, an astrophysicist at the Rochester Institute of Technology. How astronomers decided where to point the most powerful space telescope NASA ever built 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z He is a fascinating thinker, a philosophy major in college who thought about attending Harvard before choosing Wisconsin, because he dreamed of becoming an astrophysicist. What We Learned From Week 11 in the N.F.L. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z “It’s all about just looking up at the sky,” says Hakeem Oluseyi, an astrophysicist and the author of “A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey From the Streets to the Stars.” How to Spot a Shooting Star 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z For astrophysicists, the mere existence of these black holes is problematic. Astrophysicists Unveil Glut of Gravitational-wave Detections 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z “Did this happen on the surface of the star or in the magnetosphere or in the material around the magnetar?” asks Emily Petroff, an astrophysicist also at the University of Amsterdam. Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Are Finally Coming into Focus 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z “Jupiter’s beauty is not just skin deep,” says Scott Bolton, an astrophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute and principal investigator of the Juno mission. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Surprisingly Deep 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The trail, designed by artist and children's author Oliver Jeffers with help from astrophysicist Professor Stephen Smartt, can also be experienced at a riverside location in Cambridge. Unboxed: Oil rig in lido to form part of UK-wide arts event 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z "This was the first time that one FRB source was studied in such great detail," said astrophysicist Bing Zhang, an astrophysicist at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas and one of the study's corresponding authors. A mysterious and powerful radio signal from space is repeating itself 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z The first FRBs struck astrophysicists like thunderbolts out of a clear blue sky; no theory had predicted their existence. FAST, the World’s Largest Radio Telescope, Zooms in on a Furious Cosmic Source 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z When scanned from near Earth, such a signal would be extremely faint in planets around distant stars, according to M.I.T. astrophysicist Sara Seager, who was also not part of the study. High-Flying Sensor Detects Living Things from Far Above 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Theo Byrne works as an astrophysicist trying to find life on other planets, and in passages he relates to his son Robin at night, he imagines wildly different possible scenarios. Review: With 'Bewilderment,' expansive novelist Richard Powers goes dark and narrow 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Indeed, the clash over theories of 'Oumuamua's composition and origins are causing some tension among astrophysicists. Snowball fight: Astronomers argue over whether 'Oumuamua was a spacecraft or a chunk of ice 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z While their precise causes remain a mystery, astrophysicists have mostly ruled out the possibility that these mysterious radio waves are coming from an alien civilization, as Salon has previously reported. A mysterious and powerful radio signal from space is repeating itself 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z A leading astrophysicist from Northern Ireland has been awarded the world's oldest scientific prize for her work on the discovery of pulsars. Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell: NI scientist awarded Royal Society's highest prize 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z David Wilkinson, an astrophysicist turned theologian who teaches at Durham University in the United Kingdom, cited many reasons some Christians would find extraterrestrial life threatening or confusing. Highly religious Americans are less likely to believe intelligent life exists on other planets, survey says 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z “Without a clue as to how this happened, ‘still hopes to launch in August’ is very much just a hope,” Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard University astrophysicist wrote on Twitter. Boeing scrubbed Starliner spacecraft’s launch after 13 valves failed to open 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Stanford astrophysicist Dan Wilkins and his colleagues were studying a supermassive black hole when something caught their attention— a series of bright flares of X-rays. Thanks to a gravitational trick, astronomers observed light from behind a black hole 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist who doesn’t hesitate to swim in the shark-infested waters of controversy, is proposing a major effort to find aliens in our solar system, perhaps even in our airspace. Harvard’s Avi Loeb Thinks We Should Study UFOs—and He’s Not Wrong 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z “It’s really hard to see how you establish a search strategy that would have a chance of seeing one,” says Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Avi Loeb's Galileo Project Will Search for Evidence of Alien Visitation 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z But theoretical astrophysicist Avi Loeb of Harvard University argued that ‘Oumuamua, Hawaiian for “scout,” was an alien creation—a light sail, antenna, or even a spaceship. Project launched to look for extraterrestrial visitors to our solar system 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z “This rapid periodicity is hinting that the x-ray source is compact and small,” says Brian Metzger, an astrophysicist at Columbia University and a co-author on the study. Stellar explosion could be a failed supernova giving birth to a black hole 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Katie Mack, an astrophysicist and assistant professor of astronomy at North Carolina State University, also spoke to the thrill of Ms. Funk going to space but also about who gets to make the decisions. Wally Funk Is Defying Gravity and 60 Years of Exclusion From Space 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the unique atmosphere at the South Pole allows astrophysicists to detect elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos, research that can give them clues about the origins and the future of the universe. Space Has Better Internet than Antarctica, But that Might Change 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, astrophysicists realized supernova dust might also deposit radioactive isotopes with half-lives of millions of years, far too short to have been around since Earth’s birth. Exploding stars may have assaulted ancient Earth 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z They are particle astrophysicists, searching for the cosmic accelerators responsible for the universe’s most energetic particles. To catch deep-space neutrinos, astronomers lay traps in Greenland’s ice 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z “The whole thing is much less mysterious than most people assume,” says Alexey Bobrick, an astrophysicist at Lund University in Sweden. Star Trek ’s Warp Drive Leads to New Physics 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z The astrophysicist spent 13 years surmounting obstacles to help put the world-class optical telescope on a sound technical footing, including obtaining its primary mirror from Germany. Iranian astronomers fear their ambitious observatory could become a ‘Third World telescope’ 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z One of its discoverers, Pedro Bernardinelli, an astrophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania, conservatively estimates the object’s dusty, icy nucleus is between 62 and 125 miles long. The Largest Comet Ever Found Is Making Its Move Into a Sky Near You 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z By studying changes in the frequency of the gravitational waves, astrophysicists were able to determine the properties of the objects colliding in the distant reaches of the universe. A Black Hole Feasted on a Neutron Star. 10 Days Later, It Happened Again. 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Often, astrophysicists studying these mergers hope to also see accompanying electromagnetic emissions from an event—some sparks of celestial light produced in addition to gravitational waves by the cosmic cataclysm. Black Holes Swallow Neutron Stars in a Single Bite, New Results Suggest 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z “This is very cool,” said Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Marc Kamionkowski, who wasn’t part of the research. Cosmic gulp: Astronomers see black hole swallow neutron star 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z “We are not trying to push Venus as a definitely habitable world. So far all conventional interpretations say Venus is inhabitable!” said Massachusetts Institute of Technology astrophysicist Sara Seager, part of the September team. Study nixes life in clouds of Venus, but maybe in Jupiter’s? 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Every newly captured event is allowing astrophysicists like me to learn more about these weird cosmic phenomena. 535 new fast radio bursts help answer deep questions about the universe 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z Previously, astrophysicists hypothesized that periodic comet showers occur in the Solar System every 26 to 30 million years, producing periodic impacts that resulted in mass extinctions. The "pulse" of the Earth: Disastrous geologic events happen every 27 million years, study finds 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z At the low end of consensus estimates among astrophysicists, there may be only one or two planets hospitable to the evolution of technologically advanced civilizations in a typical galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars. Analysis | Intelligent life probably exists on distant planets — even if we can’t make contact, astrophysicist says 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z But many astrophysicists warned that the supernova speculation was wishful thinking. Why the Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Went Mysteriously Dim Last Year 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z “I think this really just nails it that there is a difference,” says study co-author Kiyoshi Masui, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Come in Two Distinct Flavors 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb says the significance of the UAP Task Force report will depend on the evidence it discloses, which at the moment remains mostly unknown. Experts Weigh In on Pentagon UFO Report 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z “Calling these things black holes was a master stroke,” Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge University astrophysicist, once told me. What to Name a Bunch of Black Holes? You Had Some Ideas. 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z A new cycle of storms will begin any day now, and astrophysicists are divided on how active or threatening it will be. Will the Next Space-Weather Season Be Stormy or Fair? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z “A little bit of sunlight skims the Earth’s atmosphere,” said Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist and cosmologist based at the Australian National University in Canberra, the country’s capital. A Super Blood Moon Dazzles Earthlings 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z An astrophysicist from Edinburgh University is the first woman to be named Astronomer Royal for Scotland. First woman appointed Scotland's Astronomer Royal 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z But it's not quite definitive, and astrophysicists have competing results and theories. Readers Respond to the January 2021 Issue 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z No astrophysicist has seen a black hole form, but we have. Formation of a black hole: On the spectacular implosion of the Republican Party 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z Indeed, astrophysicists suspect that such a fate befell Mars, which was once warmer and wetter than it is now. Will the Next Space-Weather Season Be Stormy or Fair? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z The proportion of different atoms in the sediments suggests heavy elements were not solely forged in supernovae, the last-gasp explosions of dying stars—as astrophysicists have long thought. Trace seabed plutonium points to stellar forges of heavy elements 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Still, they were close enough that Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, tweeted that it was “a tad alarming.” In wide-ranging interview, Bill Nelson lays out his vision for NASA 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, who tracked the tumbling rocket part, said on Twitter, “An ocean reentry was always statistically the most likely. It appears China won its gamble… But it was still reckless.” China says most of its Long March 5B rocket burned up during its reentry to Earth's atmosphere 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z If astrophysicists hope to fully understand regions where heavenly bodies mingle in throngs, they must confront the “three-body problem.” Physicists Edge Closer to Taming the Three-Body Problem 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Astrophysics Center at Harvard University, tweeted that people shouldn’t lose sleep over the possibility that the rocket might hit them. Uncontrolled Chinese rocket makes for anxious sky-watching 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z To make even heavier elements, such as copper, gold, platinum, and plutonium, requires more extreme conditions, which astrophysicists have long thought only existed in the cataclysmic explosions of supernovae. Trace seabed plutonium points to stellar forges of heavy elements 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z “It’s a fantastic experimental achievement,” says Anna Watts, an astrophysicist at the University of Amsterdam who studies neutron stars. Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of lead nucleus suggests 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z “Radio is the future,” says Tonia Venters, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Searching for the Universe’s Most Energetic Particles, Astronomers Turn on the Radio 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Talking to a theoretical astrophysicist, he specializes in far-off cosmic events — supernovas and distant galaxies. It Doesn’t Take Genius to Understand Basketball. But It Helps. 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z During the Thursday Zoom interview with Tyson, about 20 students watched intently from their computers at home as the astrophysicist explained the science behind wormholes. Neil deGrasse Tyson talks time travel, teleportation and space in interview for South King County student podcast 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z But when astrophysicists noticed that the 15 April event fluttered in brightness over microseconds, curiously fast variation, they began to think the mystery source was something else altogether. Nature’s most magnetic objects, ripped apart in starquakes, can unleash powerful flashes of light 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z For decades, astrophysicists have thought that invisible dark matter must envelop each galaxy, much as glass surrounds the swirl of color in the center of a marble. Dark matter could warm the hearts of lonely old planets, scientists predict 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z In their quest to observe the first ultrahigh-energy neutrino, astrophysicists have instead shifted focus to the more economical approach of radio detection. Searching for the Universe’s Most Energetic Particles, Astronomers Turn on the Radio 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z She is a former astrophysicist who switched careers to join the tech industry. UK 'heading towards digital skills shortage disaster' 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z When former astrophysicist and Treasury policy adviser Laurie Shaw tweeted in January that he was joining Manchester City, the football world was abuzz. Data experts are becoming football's best signings 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z “It’s just like earthquakes in LA, where you’re sitting there and they’re rumbling all the time at a pretty low level,” says Matthew Baring, an astrophysicist at Rice University. Nature’s most magnetic objects, ripped apart in starquakes, can unleash powerful flashes of light 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Some astrophysicists have instead searched the skies for indirect signs of dark matter particles. Dark matter could warm the hearts of lonely old planets, scientists predict 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z “The idea is to build not one monolithic array but 20 arrays of 10,000 antennas each,” says Mauricio Bustamante, an astrophysicist at the University of Copenhagen, who co-authored the proposal for GRAND. Searching for the Universe’s Most Energetic Particles, Astronomers Turn on the Radio 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z In “First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time,” astrophysicist Emma Chapman tells the story of those first stars, and of the scientists trying to understand them. An illuminating — and entertaining — look at the earliest stars of our cosmos 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z He and his co-authors — the astrophysicist Jenny Greene, the literary theorist Andrew Cole and the poet Tracy K. Smith — began writing their open letter to Princeton with 48 proposals for reform. He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z By the 1970s, after these gamma ray bursts were declassified, astrophysicists on both sides of the Iron Curtain tried to identify their cosmic sources. Nature’s most magnetic objects, ripped apart in starquakes, can unleash powerful flashes of light 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z They refine and challenge our understanding of how multiple star systems form, said Patricia Cruz, an astrophysicist at the Center of Astrobiology in Madrid who was not involved with the work. Six Stars, Six Eclipses: ‘The Fact That It Exists Blows My Mind’ 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z With a passion for philosophy and an interdisciplinary background, Loeb describes himself as “a somewhat accidental astrophysicist.” Review | An interstellar accident — or a piece of alien technology? 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Fred Espenak, a retired astrophysicist who worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, defines a supermoon as a full moon “within 90 percent of its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit.” The top astronomical events to look forward to in 2021, from ‘supermoons’ to eclipses 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z The observations are already challenging astrophysicists’ assumptions about how black holes form and influence their surroundings. After decades of effort, scientists are finally seeing black holes—or are they? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “These things are so crazy,” says Oliver Roberts, an astrophysicist with the Universities Space Research Association. Nature’s most magnetic objects, ripped apart in starquakes, can unleash powerful flashes of light 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z He was one of the country’s leading African American astrophysicists and among the few working in the space program. George R. Carruthers, scientist who designed telescope that went to the moon, dies at 81 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z “As it’s moving through the gas at supersonic speeds, it drives a bow shock,” says Steven Desch, an astrophysicist from Arizona State University. Asteroid Dust from Hayabusa2 Could Solve a Mystery of Planet Creation 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Penumbral eclipses are slight, verging on imperceptible in some cases, says Jackie Faherty, an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Watch a Lunar Eclipse, or at Least Try To 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z Laura Grego, an astrophysicist who studies space technology, saw the tweets; she catalogues satellites, so she has been reading amateur watchers’ communications, she says, “since before Twitter was invented.” How Do We Prevent War in Space? 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z “Indeed, it was quite a feast,” said Matt Nicholl, an astrophysicist at the University of Birmingham in England in an email. A Black Hole’s Lunch: Stellar Spaghetti 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z In 1990, Fang Lizhi, the dissident astrophysicist, was allowed to travel to the United States with his wife after more than a year in the embassy. Hong Kong Police Arrest Activist Said to Seek U.S. Asylum 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The peer, who is one of the world's leading astrophysicists, is hopeful that the coronavirus crisis will concentrate minds in government. Coronavirus is here. What else should we be worried about? 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z The publication cited Eric W. Davis, an astrophysicist who worked as a subcontractor and a consultant for the Pentagon UFO program. Trump to take 'good, strong look' at whether there are UFOs 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z “Black hole shadows are a good test in that alternative theories predict something different than what general relativity predicts,” says Feryal Özel, an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona and the EHT.* Nobel Prize Work Took Black Holes from Fantasy to Fact 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z “It’s a new hoop to jump through and a fairly narrow one,” says Feryal Özel, an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona who helped devise the new test. Famous shadow of black hole provides novel test for new theories of gravity 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z The film also features Legates’ co-author on a number of published studies, astrophysicist Willie Soon, who claims the sun is fueling global warming. Trump White House recruited climate science critics to work at NOAA 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z In particular, matter falling into the void should spiral at a high velocity outside the black hole’s equator, forming what astrophysicists call the accretion disk. The first-ever image of a black hole is now a movie 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Sure, astrophysicists have big telescopes, and oceanographers use underwater robots, but some researchers get to cook venison, lots of it, in the name of science. The Hidden History Baked Into a Cooking Pot 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z For astronomers, astrophysicists and mathematicians, black holes are, by turns, monstrous and beautiful; they are extraordinary in their physics but ordinary in their ubiquity. Nobel Prize Work Took Black Holes from Fantasy to Fact 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z “We know that it is an extraordinary discovery,” said Clara Sousa-Silva, a molecular astrophysicist at Harvard University whose research has focused on phosphine, and another of the authors. Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z “Something must be creating the phosphine on Venus as fast as it is being destroyed,” said study co-author Anita Richards, an astrophysicist associated with the University of Manchester in England. Potential sign of alien life detected on inhospitable Venus 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z “That’s why this is such an extraordinary detection, because it has to come from something completely unexpected,” Clara Sousa-Silva, a molecular astrophysicist at MIT and one of the authors on the study, tells The Verge. Discovery of noxious gas on Venus could be a sign of life 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Phosphorus and hydrogen “hate each other,” says Clara Sousa-Silva, a molecular astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-author of a study reporting the phosphine finding. Venus Might Host Life, New Discovery Suggests 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z That pairing of art and science fuses the influences in his life: His mother was a psychologist, while his father was astrophysicist William J. Kaufmann, a past director of the Griffith Observatory. As California's forests burn, an illustrated "field atlas" reads like a call to action 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z That short signal from a galaxy far, far away has left astrophysicists with new questions about how black holes form and grow. These Black Holes Shouldn’t Exist, but There They Are 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z “This is just a hint that there is something in this range of masses,” says astrophysicist Avi Loeb of Harvard University who was not involved in the study. Middleweight black holes finally found but they pose a puzzle 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z “It’s equivalent to a few tablespoons in an Olympic sized swimming pool,” David Clements, an astrophysicist at the Imperial College of London and part of the team that made the discovery, tells The Verge. Discovery of noxious gas on Venus could be a sign of life 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z “I see it as a threshold event—it’s just the tip of the iceberg,” says Priyamvada Natarajan, an astrophysicist at Yale University, who studies black hole formation but was not involved in the work. LIGO and Virgo Capture Their Most Massive Black Holes Yet 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Brant Robertson, a UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist, lives 100 yards from the evacuation zone on the university’s campus. 'You can still taste the smoke': As fire rages near UC Santa Cruz, thousands are forced to evacuate 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z “This is the first and only firm/secure mass measurement of an intermediate mass black hole at the time of its birth,” Vicky Kalogera, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University, wrote in an email. These Black Holes Shouldn’t Exist, but There They Are 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Perhaps more interesting to astrophysicists are the origins of the two merging black holes. Middleweight black holes finally found but they pose a puzzle 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z The main proponent of this argument was Avi Loeb, a Harvard University astrophysicist. Mystery of Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua Gets Trickier 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z “The pandemic does offer some silver lining with accessibility to conferences,” says Kim-Vy Tran, an astrophysicist at the University of New South Wales Sydney, who is based in Seattle, Washington. Conferences failing to protect LGBT+ researchers 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z With this grim image, theoretical astrophysicist Katie Mack begins her book on the end of the Universe — a much more uncertain prospect. Crunch, rip, freeze or decay — how will the Universe end? 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z The publication cites Eric W. Davis, an astrophysicist who worked as a subcontractor and a consultant for the Pentagon UFO program. With Pentagon UFO unit in the spotlight, report mentions 'off-world vehicles not made on this earth' 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The United Arab Emirates’ exciting and historic launch of a Mars probe must open doors for aspiring scientists in the region, says astrophysicist Nidhal Guessoum. Daily briefing: The biotech building a better, faster, stronger coronavirus vaccine 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z One theory suggested by astrophysicist Eugene Parker — the namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe — is that small solar flares are happening at small scales throughout the Sun, heating up the atmosphere. The closest images of the Sun ever taken reveal tiny solar flares dotting the star’s surface 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z “Look, he was a genius, and he was a truly unusual person, but he wasn't exactly nice,” astrophysicist and author Mario Livio, whose latest book is Galileo and the Science Deniers, said by phone. How Galileo Battled the Science Deniers of His Time 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z So the mystery object lies squarely in what astrophysicists call the “mass gap.” A Black Hole’s Lunch Provides a Treat for Astronomers 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z “The sun is a fundamental yardstick,” says Martin Asplund, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany. An Elemental Problem with the Sun 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Erin Kara, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, finds the black hole merger theory “tempting.” Astronomers May Have Glimpsed Light from Merging Black Holes 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Although they would never be able to collect any winnings, most astrophysicists would bet that last summer’s merger involved a big black hole gobbling up an improbably tiny one. Mystery Object Blurs Line between Neutron Stars and Black Holes 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Yet it’s not easy to form a black hole this light, explains Feryal Özel, an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona. Gravitational waves reveal lightest black hole ever observed 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z The enlarged black hole is now “doomed to wander the vast emptiness of space, probably never emitting another peep”, says astrophysicist Cole Miller. Daily briefing: Why protests haven’t lead to a surge in COVID-19 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z That would be a big problem, says Robert Rosner, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Chicago and former director of Argonne National Laboratory who is on Livermore’s advisory board. Lawsuit alleges scientific misconduct at U.S. nuclear weapons lab 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z “It’s intellectually beautiful to actually confirm one of the fundamental predictions of stellar structure theory,” says Marc Pinsonneault, an astrophysicist at Ohio State University in Columbus. Neutrinos reveal final secret of Sun’s nuclear fusion 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z But predicting the exact aftermath of a messy explosion involving gravity, thermodynamics and particle physics represents something of a cosmic final exam that astrophysicists are still working on. Mystery Object Blurs Line between Neutron Stars and Black Holes 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The real puzzle may be the extreme mismatch in the masses of the black holes in the new observation, says Brian Metzger, a theoretical astrophysicist at Columbia University who was not involved in the work. Gravitational waves reveal lightest black hole ever observed 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Thankfully, there's the earnest Australian astrophysicist who meant well when he started shoving mini but relatively mighty magnets up his nose. Misinformation and Miscalculation in the Time of the Coronavirus 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z But Williams is a talented scientist, says Craig Wheeler, an astrophysicist at the University of Texas, Austin, who was his graduate adviser and has subsequently published with him. Lawsuit alleges scientific misconduct at U.S. nuclear weapons lab 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Dave got interested in science writing in the late 1950s, after being given a book called The Nature of the Universe, by astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. RIP David Perlman, the Dean of American Science Writing 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z Such phenomena are typically seen as irrelevant by astrophysicists and high-energy physicists studying dark matter. Direct Proof of Dark Matter May Lurk at Low-Energy Frontiers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Stephens recalled an astrophysicist explaining that the elements from which we are made are forged in stars. Romance Writers of America aims for happy end to racism row with new prize 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z A massive galaxy similar to our own Milky Way spotted shockingly early in the universe’s history is challenging astrophysicists’ understanding of galaxy formation. Astronomers Get Earliest Ever Glimpse of Ancient Giant Galaxy 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard and satellite tracker, tells The Verge. An out-of-control Chinese rocket may have dumped debris in Africa after falling from space 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z But there may be hundreds of millions or even a billion of them in the Milky Way, said astrophysicist and study co-author Petr Hadrava of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Closest black hole to Earth has two partners in surprising celestial marriage 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z The paper was so influential that generations of astrophysicists called it B2FH for short, quipping that the early Universe made hydrogen and helium, but Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler and Hoyle made all the rest. E. Margaret Burbidge (1919–2020) 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z "This image is amazing, it's really showing how powerful Hubble is," Elena Sabbi, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, told Space.com. Hubble nabs stunning 'Cosmic Reef' image to mark 30th anniversary 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z “It’s an exceptional event,” said Maya Fishbach, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, who unveiled the signal at a virtual meeting of the American Physical Society on 18 April. Black hole collision, funding disruption and Mars rocks 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z “It would be a huge ring system around a relatively old star,” says astrophysicist Bruce Macintosh of Stanford University, who also was not part of the work. Astronomers May Have Captured the First Ever Image of Nearby Exoplanet Proxima C 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z “It’s an exceptional event,” said Maya Fishbach, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago in Illinois. Gravitational waves just got even more interesting 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z “Clear and present dangers tend to offer buoyant forces to a sinking ship,” astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said in an email. As the going gets tough, America returns to experts for help 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z Postscript: In the late 1990's astrophysicists discovered that the universe is expanding at an increasing rate. Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Carole Mundell is the chief scientific adviser at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and an astrophysicist at the University of Bath.Credit: Daily briefing: This is the state of COVID-19 vaccine development now 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Pioneering astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge, who helped to explain the origin of all chemical elements, from beryllium to zinc, died on Sunday at the age of 100. Daily briefing: The evidence is not stacking up for hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z I work three days a week as chief scientific adviser to the FCO in London, and two days a week as an astrophysicist at the University of Bath. Making a world of difference, step by step 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z The 27 year-old astrophysicist, who studies pulsars and gravitational waves, said he was trying to liven up the boredom of self-isolation with the four powerful neodymium magnets. Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Below is an edited version of a portrait of Fred Hoyle, the iconoclastic British astrophysicist, who collaborated with Burbidge, from my 1996 book The End of Science. Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z If she doesn’t find it’s rigorous enough, she will supply Gunther, an aspiring astrophysicist, with extra science and math work at home. In a city where most students don’t attend their neighborhood schools, what drives the education choices of families? 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Once the data are available, the next step will be to invite astrophysicists to join the conversation and interpret the cosmic environment needed for such neutron-induced carbon formation, Sobokta says. Carbon Conundrum: Experiment Aims to Re-create Synthesis of Key Element 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Dr. Sanders punted to Edward Stone, executive director of the Thirty Meter collaboration and an astrophysicist at Caltech. American Astronomy’s Future Goes on Trial in Washington 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Travel restrictions have twice vexed Michael Clark, an astrophysicist and postdoc at Purdue University. Labs go quiet as researchers brace for long-term coronavirus disruptions 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z A common thread in all of this is astrophysicist Suleiman Baraka, whose life's work — along with that of his students and mentees — illustrates the promise and challenges of astronomy in Gaza. In Gaza, scanning the sky for stars, not drones 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z That and other observations allow astrophysicists to pin down the masses and radii of the deceased stars. The golden age of neutron-star physics has arrived 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Betelegeuse is estimated to be less than 10 million years old, but astrophysicists predict that it will end in a supernova explosion sometime in the next 100,000 years. Mysterious faded star Betelgeuse has started to brighten again 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z There is an astrophysicist and a maple syrup producer in the mix, from places as varied as Brooklyn; Minot, N.D.; and Lake Jackson, Texas. Opinion | I Am 35 and Running Faster Than I Ever Thought Possible 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z “Saying goodbye to Spitzer is saying goodbye to a dear friend that journeyed with us through the cosmos,” says astrophysicist Nikole Lewis. Daily briefing: Genetically engineered gut microbes can protect honey bees 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z That prediction inspired an eclipse expedition to the West African island of Principe in May 1919, led by British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington. Physicists Probe Validity of Einstein’s Gravity on Cosmic Scales 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z “There’s no requirement for anything funky or crazy or exotic yet,” says Andrew Steiner, a nuclear astrophysicist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The golden age of neutron-star physics has arrived 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z “It is the heaviest known by a pretty wide margin,” says Chad Hanna, an astrophysicist at Pennsylvania State University who hunts gravitational waves. Did Astronomers Just Discover Black Holes from the Big Bang? 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Apparently, the communications satellites that now clog the skies mean astronomers and astrophysicists will soon have their view of outer space fatally obscured. I’m seeing stars… but thanks to Elon Musk, not for much longer | Stewart Lee 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Nadkarni joined a team of female scientists advising Mattel as it made the line of dolls that includes a marine biologist, astrophysicist, photojournalist, conservationist and entomologist. Forest ecologist helps refashion Barbie dolls as scientists 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Here’s hoping that in order to win a Nobel Prize in the future, an astrophysicist will not be forced to pursue a frontier that is initially ridiculed by colleagues. A Tale of Three Nobels 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z "The disk of our galaxy is spinning but not uniformly," study co-author Fabio Iocco, an astrophysicist at Imperial College London, told Live Science. Milky Way is as massive as 890 billion suns 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The astrophysicist loses faith in humanity and uses a high-power radio transmitter to broadcast a defiant message to aliens in a nearby solar system, an act that has dire consequences. How Chinese Sci-Fi Conquered America 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Over the summer, Fox shared these early results with solar astrophysicist Eugene Parker, 92, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago for whom the spacecraft is named. Surprising 1st results from NASA’s sun-skimming spacecraft 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z “If you see a single event with 80 solar masses,” says Davide Gerosa, an astrophysicist at the University of Birmingham in England, “that’s a strong signature of some exotic formation channel.” Black Hole Factories May Hide at Cores of Giant Galaxies 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Speaking to the BBC, the astrophysicist warned that the planet is at risk of a deadly disaster if protective measures aren't put in place. Apocalyptic asteroid strike that could wipe out humanity is ‘only a matter of time’, top scientist warns 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z But in common with many women at the time, she was discouraged from becoming an astrophysicist. How we probe and pollute the cosmos 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z My sub-orbital flight was late getting into Denver and I missed the first shuttle to the conference — losing my seat for the keynote talk by the rock-star astrophysicist I’d crossed the Atlantic to interview. Early warning 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z “Five years ago, no one in cosmology was really worried about the question of how fast the universe was expanding. We took it for granted,” says astrophysicist Daniel Mortlock of Imperial College London. The Hubble constant: a mystery that keeps getting bigger 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z In the midst of building this new black hole taxonomy, astrophysicists are already brainstorming what they will be able to do with it. Black Hole Factories May Hide at Cores of Giant Galaxies 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z In the early 1990s, a team of astrophysicists led by Carl Sagan looked at data from the Galileo spacecraft and saw the signatures of life on a planet in our galaxy. Pastcast: Carl Sagan uses Galileo to search for signs of life 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z It is the task of the astrophysicist to develop a picture of the universe despite our overwhelming blindness. How Mere Humans Manage to Comprehend the Vastness of the Universe 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z "It's a probe into internal structure that there is no other way to get at right now," says astrophysicist Evgenya Shkolnik of Arizona State University in Tempe, who is not involved in the project. This telescope could ‘see’ inside alien worlds for the first time 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Michel Mayor is an astrophysicist and professor emeritus of astronomy at the University of Geneva. Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Studies of Earth’s Place in the Universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Light reveals what a galaxy is made of, says Katelyn Breivik, an astrophysicist at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, but gravitational waves may unmask its more subtle dynamics. Black Hole Factories May Hide at Cores of Giant Galaxies 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Silicon Valley astrophysicists are abandoning the heavens to help you decide what to wear and watch and listen to. Newsletter: Fire danger and a massive power shutoff in Northern California 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The astrophysicists’ task then became one of using the visible to detect the remaining 95 percent. How Mere Humans Manage to Comprehend the Vastness of the Universe 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Olivier Berné, an astrophysicist who founded the protest movement RogueESR — which lobbies for better working conditions in science and higher education — says the proposals do not respond to several demands of the scientific community. French research budget disappoints 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z “Yes, an absolute surprise,” said astrophysicist Juan Carlos Morales of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia at the Institute of Space Sciences in Spain, who led the research published in the journal Science. Scientists puzzled by really big planet orbiting really little star 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Three years ago, astrophysicists electrified the world when they detected gravitational waves—infinitesimal ripples in space itself—set off when two massive black holes swirled into each other and merged about 1.3 billion light-years away. Black hole reverberations suggest the cosmic beasts are as ‘bald’ as cue balls 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z A new biography of astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky seeks to elucidate the many facets of a prolific, but elusive, figure in the history of science. Daily briefing: First-ever image of a black hole wins Breakthrough Prize 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z They allow astrophysicists to determine how much of the universe is invisible without knowing exactly what the darkness is. How Mere Humans Manage to Comprehend the Vastness of the Universe 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z The project is led by University of Illinois educational psychology professor H. Chad Lane, and University of Maine astrophysicist Neil F. Comins is a collaborator. Scientists to use Minecraft to help students study space 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z He called theoretical physicist Richard Feynman a “spiritual coward”, and was contemptuous of astrophysicists who adhered to the theory of an expanding Universe. Deciphering dark matter: the remarkable life of Fritz Zwicky 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z That means a black hole can retain no trace of how it formed, says Saul Teukolsky, a theoretical astrophysicist at Cornell University. Black hole reverberations suggest the cosmic beasts are as ‘bald’ as cue balls 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Think of these isotopes as mayflies or green bananas, said Brian Fields, an astrophysicist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, who was not involved in the study. A Supernova Was Hiding in Antarctica’s Snow 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, astrophysicists thought that the universe’s rate of expansion would gradually decrease. How Mere Humans Manage to Comprehend the Vastness of the Universe 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z For example, earlier this summer, astrophysicists found indirect evidence suggesting that it is possible for supermassive black holes to form without a very big star imploding. Astronomers just saw a black hole eat a neutron star 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z But can this portrayal help to change perceptions of the prolific astrophysicist? Deciphering dark matter: the remarkable life of Fritz Zwicky 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Those advancements could level the playing field between places such as Mauna Kea and La Palma, said astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who chairs Harvard University’s astronomy department. Astronomer: ‘Magic’ nights make Hawaii best telescope site 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z This time, however, astrophysicists instantly knew that the observed event was special. Astronomers Spy a Black Hole Devouring a Neutron Star 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z This need arises when astrophysicists contemplate the expanding universe and relativity. How Mere Humans Manage to Comprehend the Vastness of the Universe 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Have you heard the one about the poet and the astrophysicist who met in the Esalen hot springs and eloped the next week? Silicon Valley’s Crisis of Conscience 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z “It’s the only radio-quiet location in the inner Solar System,” says astrophysicist Jack Burns at the University of Colorado Boulder. The quest to unlock the secrets of the baby Universe 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z In fact, to observers on Earth, early massive galaxies are simply invisible at optical wavelengths, says Tao Wang, an astrophysicist at the University of Tokyo. Galaxy hunters spot hidden giants in the early universe 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Greek police seeking a missing 35-year-old British astrophysicist found a body in a ravine on the Greek island of Ikaria on Wednesday, Greek state TV reported. Greek police seeking missing Briton on Ikaria find body 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z In this manner, astrophysicists “stretch the mind to see the universe from an external perspective,” says Turner. How Mere Humans Manage to Comprehend the Vastness of the Universe 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Natalie Christopher, 35, an astrophysicist from London, was reported missing by her partner on Monday after failing to return from a run. Body found in search for UK woman in Greece 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Natalie Christopher, 35, an astrophysicist who lives in Cyprus, was reported missing on Monday by her 38-year-old partner after she went on a morning run and did not return. British scientist missing on Greek island: Search teams use geolocating equipment to find her phone 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Natalie Christopher, 34, an astrophysicist who lives in Cyprus, was first reported missing by her 38-year-old partner, with whom she had been vacationing on the Greek island of Ikaria, The Telegraph reported. British woman goes missing on Greek island, prompting massive search: police 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Christopher, an astrophysicist from London who resides in Nicosia, was reported missing by her partner after she failed to return from a run on Monday morning. Greek police seeking missing Briton on Ikaria find body 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Similarly, when considering the four-dimensional universe, mathematical measurements provide astrophysicists with an invaluable means of navigating the obscure. How Mere Humans Manage to Comprehend the Vastness of the Universe 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Local media identified the woman as Natalie Christopher, an astrophysicist who lives in Cyprus and who was reported missing by her partner, with whom she was vacationing on the island. Greek authorities search for British woman missing on island 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Lundquist, an astrophysicist and college educator, has campaigned as an antidote to the “status quo.” Breaking up the status quo at L.A. City Hall? Both of these candidates argue they'll do it 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Backers of Loraine Lundquist, a college educator and astrophysicist who has made climate change a central issue in her campaign, have made hay of that fact. Fossil fuel money flows into council race in Valley area hit by Aliso Canyon methane disaster 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z Blizzard also describes him as “an eccentric astrophysicist who hopes to unlock the secrets of the universe, unaware that he is being used as a living weapon.” Overwatch’s next hero is Sigma, a scientist who controls gravity 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Even with this universal language of mathematics, astrophysicists still resort to biological terms to describe certain cosmic phenomena. How Mere Humans Manage to Comprehend the Vastness of the Universe 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z “The Universe is just messing with us at this point, right?” tweeted one astrophysicist about the paper. How fast is the Universe expanding? Cosmologists just got more confused 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z So Katie Mack is this famous public astrophysicist who I know on Twitter. Author Myke Cole talks writing hard science fiction in his space-set Coast Guard novel Sixteenth Watch 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z The light dips in that case looked intriguing enough that astrophysicist Jason Wright of Pennsylvania State University organized a campaign to listen to the object, eventually nicknamed Tabby's star, for leaking radio transmissions. Astronomers Are Baffled by the Most Bizarre Star Yet 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Eddington, a British astronomer, mathematician and astrophysicist, made that theory known and celebrated worldwide. Review | How Einstein’s science defied nationalism and crossed borders 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Turner describes how astrophysicists speak of the birth and death of stars, as though they were alive. How Mere Humans Manage to Comprehend the Vastness of the Universe 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z The idea of a solar sail was dreamed up by renowned astrophysicist Carl Sagan in the 1970s, and he even presented the concept on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. An atomic clock, "green" propellant, and a sunlight-surfing sail are headed to space next week 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z It won’t be the first space telescope sensitive to high-energy ‘hard’ X-rays, which offer astrophysicists a window into otherwise faint objects in the Universe. Space telescope to chart first map of the Universe in high-energy X-rays 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z She is a Democrat with an unconventional political resume: an astrophysicist who turned her focus to climate change. A San Fernando Valley runoff pits a scientist against a former City Hall aide 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z “This is amazing,” says Smadar Naoz, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not part of the study. Cool Gas Circles Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z The lives of stars and the twin paradox are just two examples of astrophysicists making sense of the unfamiliar through our own biology. How Mere Humans Manage to Comprehend the Vastness of the Universe 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z As a result, the revised guidelines seem “much more nuanced and more realistic” than the initial set, says astrophysicist Luke Drury, former president of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. Radical open-access plan delayed a year as revised effort seeks more support 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z A hard-X-ray space mission has long been on the cards for Russian and German astrophysicists: SRG’s roots stretch back to the Soviet Union. Space telescope to chart first map of the Universe in high-energy X-rays 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z “Standard search algorithms attempt to identify sudden drops in brightness,” lead author René Heller, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, said in a statement. 18 Small New Worlds Found In Old Planet-Hunting Data 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Leon Golub, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the possibility of an extraterrestrial cause “is so unlikely that it competes with many other low-probability but more mundane explanations.” ‘Wow, what is that?’ Navy pilots report unexplained flying objects 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z After all, it is the mind of the astrophysicist that must first identify its blind spots and then devise techniques to overcome them. How Mere Humans Manage to Comprehend the Vastness of the Universe 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Edward Stone, an astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, garnered the astronomy award for his stewardship of NASA’s Voyager mission. Voyager spacecraft steward among winners of prestigious Hong Kong prizes 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z The Detroit Tigers on Tuesday threw a jab at Neil deGrasse Tyson after the astrophysicist told social media a “dad joke.” Detroit Tigers throw jab at Neil deGrasse Tyson over 'dad joke' 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z On social media, many scientists voiced their opposition and said they relied on Pell to become astrophysicists and aerospace engineers. Trump faces backlash over plan to dip into Pell reserves 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Now, Sean McWilliams, a theoretical astrophysicist at West Virginia University in Morgantown, has calculated an exact mathematical formula the signal, or waveform, produced by two merging black holes. Theorist calculates the incalculable siren song of merging black holes 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z It's perhaps worth stopping to ask why astrophysicists hypothesize dark matter to be everywhere in the universe? Cosmology Has Some Big Problems 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Now astrophysicists believe supermassive black holes lurk in the hearts of all large galaxies. A brief history of black holes as we await the big reveal from the Event Horizon Telescope 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z The research will put to the test a scientific pillar - physicist Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, according to University of Arizona astrophysicist Dimitrios Psaltis, project scientist for the Event Horizon Telescope. In astrophysics milestone, first photo of black hole expected 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z This messy disassembly, which, at its most extreme, is dubbed “spaghettification” by astrophysicists, is the typical fate of anything falling into a black hole. A Heavy-Metal Planet Orbiting a Dead Star May Foretell Our World's End 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z “The whole way we do things is just no longer up to the task,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard and spaceflight tracker, tells The Verge. Why the Air Force still cannot identify more than a dozen satellites from one December launch 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z For lack of a clear alternative, as astrophysicist Disney also notes, it is in a sense stuck with the paradigm. Cosmology Has Some Big Problems 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z “It is one of the great mysteries in science right now — what is a black hole?” said Chiara Mingarelli, an astrophysicist at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics in New York. A brief history of black holes as we await the big reveal from the Event Horizon Telescope 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z May, who’s also an astrophysicist, joined the science team in January. Rock On: NASA releases artsy shots of 2 asteroids 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z It’s not just me; it’s also my colleague the astrophysicist Adam Frank, and a bunch of others, talking more and more about the relation between science and spirituality. Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prize-Winning Physicist Says 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Most controversially, as postulated by the prominent Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb, perhaps it was an alien artifact—a gossamer-thin sheet-like spacecraft engineered to coast on starlight through the interstellar depths. 'Oumuamua, Our First Interstellar Visitor, May Have Been a Comet After All 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will return to television after the broadcasters of his shows announced Friday that they had completed their investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him. Neil deGrasse Tyson Will Return to TV After Misconduct Investigation 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The work was funded in part by NASA; the research intrigued Carl Sagan and astrophysicists, who thought it might apply to future contact with extraterrestrials. Ketamine, a new antidepressant, has been blowing minds for decades 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z A female detective’s probe into the murder of an astrophysicist raises cosmic questions. L.A. movie openings, March 15: Keira Knightley in ‘The Aftermath’ and more 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z A cake might outwardly be inspired by Miura-ori, an origami fold involving a zigzag series of parallelograms, adapted in the 1970s by a Japanese astrophysicist for the deployment of solar panels on space satellites. The Secret Ingredient for These Desserts: A 3-D Printer 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z One approach, some astrophysicists suggest, is to add more species of lightweight subatomic particles, such as the ghostlike neutrinos, to the early universe. Have Dark Forces Been Messing With the Cosmos? 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z It was Kepler who understood first that mathematical figures hidden in the dance of the planets implied that these bodies are driven by real physical forces, thereby making him the first true astrophysicist. Review | Minds that explore the beauty of math and the logic of art 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z “There are considerable numbers of students who are very much into space and science in Turkey,” says Umut Y1ld1z, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Turkey Creates Its First Space Agency 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “Oumuamua is not an alien spaceship, and the authors of the paper insult honest scientific inquiry to even suggest it,” Ohio State University astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter wrote in a tweet. Harvard prof doesn't back down from claims that alien spacecraft may be zipping past Jupiter orbit 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “There are considerable numbers of students who are very much into space and science in Turkey,” says Umut Yıldız, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Turkey creates its first space agency 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z These fields would, according to astrophysicists’ prevailing explanation, carry away some of the black hole’s energy and rotational momentum, as well as create more electrons and positrons. Black-hole jets begin to reveal their antimatter secrets 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z “Where we are is very close to disaster,” said astrophysicist Robert Rosner of the University of Chicago in Illinois, who chairs the group’s Science and Security Board. Brexit impacts, quitting coal and Lassa-fever outbreak 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z A young astrophysicist who works in the two-year postdoctoral program at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, she got an email alerting her that her stipend would cease Jan. 18. A day in shutdown life: Free mac and cheese, clean closets, empty bank accounts 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z “This sounds more at home in a vampire novel,” said Patrick Hartigan, an astrophysicist at Rice University. ‘Super Blood Wolf Moon’ Makes Astronomers Howl 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Events like this one “are new frontiers for discovery,” said Northwestern University astrophysicist Raffaella Margutti, who led research suggesting the flare comes from a newborn black hole. Scientists had never seen anything like this supernova. Could it be a newborn black hole? 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The existence of a second repeater suggests that there are many more to be found, said Ingrid Stairs, an astrophysicist at the University of British Columbia, in a news release. Broadcasting from Deep Space, a Mysterious Series of Radio Signals 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z "Something like a neutron star fits the bill reasonably well actually," says Dr Ingrid Stairs, an astrophysicist from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Signals from space: What are they? 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Gillen plays Dr. Allen Hynek, an astrophysicist who serves as a consultant to the Air Force project where he assesses reports on UFOs. ‘Game of Thrones’ star Aidan Gillen talks leaving HBO series, suiting up for ‘Project Blue Book’ 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Brian May, the astrophysicist who was also the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen, made one of these images. What We’ve Learned About Ultima Thule From NASA’s New Horizons Mission 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z “There’s a lot of interest,” Robert Rutledge, editor in chief of the Astronomer’s Telegram and an astrophysicist at McGill University in Canada, said at the time. Scientists had never seen anything like this supernova. Could it be a newborn black hole? 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z There were also a few VIPs in attendance — notably, Queen guitarist Brian May, who is also an acclaimed astrophysicist. Counting down the new year and the most distant flyby in the Solar System 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z The National Geographic channel will not air any new episodes of “StarTalk” until the investigation into the astrophysicist is completed, the Times has confirmed. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s ‘StarTalk’ season on hold amid investigations into misconduct allegations 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z |
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