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Two MIT Kavli Institute IAP 2013 activities on the "Life Cycle of Stars" were selected to be video-recorded as part of an ongoing MIT Libraries and AMPS video project sponsored by Neil Pappalardo. See "The High Energy Lifestyle of Young Stars" by Dr. Norbert Schulz (MIT Kavli Institute); "Dissecting the X-rays from Supernova Remnants" by Dr. Laura Lopez (Pappalardo Fellow, Einstein Fellow, MIT Kavli Institute). Note: MIT retains copyright to these videos.
March 25, 2013 -- Received a National Science Foundation (NSF)...
Researchers at The Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research explore extreme and unusual phenomena found beyond the Earth including extrasolar planets, black holes, neutron stars, and distant galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
The Wind spacecraft carries a Faraday Cup plasma detector built at MIT. The spacecraft was launched in 1994 and is now in a halo orbit about the L1 Lagrange point 200 Earth radii in front of the Earth. The instrument provides plasma densities, speeds, and temperatures for protons and alpha particles.
Group members: Alan Lazarus, John Richardson, Leslie Finck
Image: Faraday Cup plasma detector built at MIT
A nearby star is pummeling a companion planet with a barrage of X-rays a hundred thousand times more than the Earth receives from the Sun. Credit: NASA/CXC/NSF/IPAC/2MASS (see the 
