In a recent article from BU Today, IAR’s Professor Alan Marscher and Senior Research Scientist Svetlana Jorstad discuss the first image of a black hole captured through a collaboration of more than 200 other scientists from around the globe known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration. “Because black holes have so much mass that […]
In a recent article from The Daily Free Press, IAR’s Assistant Professor Philip Muirhead discusses his group’s work assembling a list of red dwarf planets for the new NASA satellite, TESS, to explore with Lillian Ilsley-Greene. ‘Just under three years ago, Philip Muirhead, an astronomy professor at BU, was asked to assemble a team to […]
In a recent article from BU Research, IAR’s Assistant Professor Philip Muirhead discusses what the latest landing on Mars, InSight, could teach us with Doug Most. “Red dwarf stars are much cooler and fainter than the sun; the sun is ten times brighter than even the brightest red dwarfs (which are actually almost yellow), and […]
In a recent article from BU Today, IAR graduate student Mark Veyette discusses running computer models of M dwarfs through the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in Holyoke, MA and his research with Rich Barlow. ‘To the epic search for life on other planets, Mark Veyette brings some of science’s most formidable technology: […]
Kate Becker of the BU Research team joins IAR graduate student Paul Dalba, Assistant Professor Phil Muirhead, and Astronomy major Sheila Sagear in the new Liu Astronomical Observing Center. ‘Modern astronomy looks a lot different from its popular depiction. Instead of squinting into a telescope eyepiece beneath a creaky old dome, today’s astronomers work at […]