In a recent article from The Boston Globe, IAR’s Assistant Professor Philip Muirhead discusses the reasoning for his work and what his ‘Holy Grail’ would be: finding evidence that we are not alone in the universe. “The more we learn about the universe, the more alone it feels. In our evolution from an earth-centered universe, […]
Covered in the latest BU Today article, the BU Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (including IAR’s own Aurora Kesseli) met with third-grade girls to foster a love for science. ‘On this Thursday, eight-year-old Amaria Smith works next to Kesseli, an astronomy doctoral candidate, coloring multiple discs so she can see different shapes through her […]
Philip Muirhead, Julie Skinner, Mark Veyette, and Aurora Kesseli spoke to The Daily Free Press this week about their research team focused on finding habitable planets with space telescopes. ‘“The problem with telescopes on the ground is that you get interrupted when you’re observing because the sun is coming up,” Muirhead said. “You can’t operate […]
This week, USA TODAY spoke to many astronomy professors, including BU’s Philip Muirhead, about the recent discovery of a cluster of seven potentially habitable planets. ‘The new herd of planets circles a tiny dim bulb of a star called TRAPPIST-1, which shares its name with the Belgian-operated telescope that discovered some of the planets… “Of […]
In a recent article from BU Today, IAR PhD student Paul Dalba talks about the incredible progress he was able to make in studying Saturn as if it were an exoplanet using the Shared Computing Cluster as Philip Muirhead suggested. ‘The cluster enabled precise measurements of the degree that light is bent as it passes […]
In an article from WIRED, Philip Muirhead and other astronomers talk about the split between looking for life around stars akin to our sun or around M dwarf stars. ‘While some astronomers continue to focus on M dwarfs, others still want to target sun-like stars. For now, researchers are poised to learn more about M-dwarf […]
Dr. Philip Muirhead and CSP’s Dr. Joshua Semeter talked to The Daily Free Press this week about solar storms and what can be observed of them through aurora. ‘But some particles and magnetic plasma do enter the Earth’s atmosphere if the storm is strong enough. When this happens, magnetic displays such as the northern lights […]