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Happy #GravitationalWavesDay!!! #OTD in 2015, at 09:50:45 UTC, LIGO made the first ever detection of #GravitationalWaves from the collision of two #BlackHoles more than a billion light years away. Read the amazing story of #GW150914 in our LIGO magazine ligo.org/magazine/LIGO-…

Excited to finally share a new paper on the kilonova discovery potential of the Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER): arxiv.org/abs/2110.01622 with Danielle Frostig, Geoffrey Mo, Viraj Karambelkar, @sasomao and others MITKavli, Caltech PMA Division, and IJCLab 1/4

“What we find exciting about our result is that to some level of confidence we can say binary neutron stars are probably more of a goldmine than neutron star-black hole mergers,” says lead author Hsin-Yu Chen, a postdoc in MITKavli news.mit.edu/2021/neutron-s…

Mark Vogelsberger: Simulating galaxy formation for clues to the universe physics.mit.edu/?p=10691 MIT Science MITKavli #astrophysics #IllustrisTNG

A huge thank you to Skype A Scientist for connecting our budding astronomers with a real life astronomer from MITKavli today. Thanks for answering all of our space questions, Dr. Günther!!

36 years ago today, 7 astronauts lost their lives as the Challenger Space Shuttle failed shortly after launch. Among them was Dr. Ron McNair, MIT PhD '76, and the second Black astronaut in space. We remember and honor him today & every day. MIT Science MIT AeroAstro MIT Physics

TESS, a NASA mission led and operated by MIT, has identified over 5,000 planet candidates outside of our solar system. newsweek.com/nasa-found-500…

Congrats to all the MIT students and faculty who contributed to the NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission! Scientists from EAPS, MIT AeroAstro MITKavli and Lincoln Laboratory, in partnership with Harvard College Observatory, build an instrument to analyze soil collected from the astroid #Bennu bit.ly/32FXcCF

European Research Council Synergy Grant Awarded for Gravitational Research to MIT’s Nergis Mavalvala and Collaborators #ERCSyG space.mit.edu/european-resea… MIT Science MIT Physics MITKavli

This South African telescope hopes to see radiation stretched 10 times by cosmic expansion since it was emitted 13.5 billion years ago. So far, it's telling us how galaxies differed in the early universe UC Berkeley Berkeley Astronomy news.berkeley.edu/2023/01/24/wer…

Galaxies birthed by dying stars! An international team, including MKI researchers, uses infrared and millimeter-wave bands to reveal the primordial ‘soup’ of synthesized elements leaking from nascent galaxies. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Star consumes an orbiting world - as the Sun will the earth a few billion years hence! news.mit.edu/2023/astronome…

The floor is lava! 🌋 Astronomers, including researchers at MITKavli and MIT EAPS, have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet that may be carpeted with volcanoes nasa.gov/feature/goddar…

O4 run - Gravitational Wave Detectors Start Next Observing Run to Explore the Secrets of the Universe ligo.org/news/images/O4…

MIT & Canadian astronomers double the number of known repeating FRBs. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384…

Kepler's last planets - exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1759/astr…

The Webb Telescope: A New Era in Astronomy, Jane Rigby, astrophysicist and JWST operations project scientist explains how astronomers use advanced telescopes, shares a few stories about how the Webb started, and the people who made it a reality. calendar.mit.edu/event/the_webb…

NASA’s Webb Proves Galaxies Transformed the Early Universe nasa.gov/feature/goddar…

See 3Q: Exploring the universe’s “first light” news.mit.edu/2023/3q-explor… Q: What have astronomers seen of the universe’s “first light”? Q: What have people learned about how the telescope works in its first year? Q: What are you hoping to see in the second year of observations?

'For the Moon', a short film on Ronald McNair will premier August 5th at the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival...based on Carl McNair's book, 'In the Spirit of Ronald E. McNair: Astronaut.' mvaaff.com/events/event/f…