May 10, 2021
Przemyslaw Mroz, a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech, and his colleagues have discovered the smallest known “rogue planet,” a free-floating world without a star.
May 4, 2021
A recent workshop hosted by the W. M. Keck Institute for Space Sciences has led to new ideas for the detection and tracking of megafires.
May 1, 2021
Alexei Kitaev, Ellen Rothenberg, and Anneila Sargent (MS '67, PhD '77) have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, in a year where a record number of women have been elected.
April 7, 2021
Machine-learning methods lead to discovery of rare "quadruply imaged quasars" that can help solve cosmological puzzles.
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May 12, 2021
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Don't Fear the Spiders: New Insights from Redback Millisecond Pulsars
Jay Strader,
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Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Michigan State University,
May 14, 2021
2:00 pm
TAPIR Seminar
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Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from relativistic jets of Active Galactic Nuclei
Rostom Mbarek,
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
The University of Chicago,
May 17, 2021
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"Mini Agujeros Negros" and "Enanas Marrones"
May 20, 2021
7:00 pm
Theodore von Kármán Lecture
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Space Cameras: A Sharper Image
Justin Maki,
Imaging Scientist/Mastcam-Z Deputy PI,
NASA/JPL,
Hallie Abarca,
Mars 2020 Image and Data Processing Operations Lead,
NASA/JPL,