The TESS Science Conference I will be the first conference dedicated to TESS mission science, including exoplanets, asteroseismology, stellar binaries, variable stars, Solar System science (e.g., asteroids and comets), extragalactic…

…an online Gallery of the entrants in our competition. All the entries, the winners, and a photo-set from our public gallery showing, are all available at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/artofastro/sets/ c) “The Art…

…memoir, Hale Bradt (1974–2012) Prof. Bruno Rossi, autobiographical moments (2008) Prof. Stanislaw Olbert, pre-MIT biography, Norma Olbert (2014) Selected CSR/MKI Milestones June 1963 Founding of the Center for Space Research…

…glasses: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-recommends-safety-tips-to-view-the-august-solar-eclipse The American Astronomical Society has a list of vendors that sell approved eclipse glasses. https://eclipse.aas.org/resources/solar-filters If you’re ordering online, I suggest doing so this week so you’ll be…

…the blog does have new content created since her book was published. These hard-to-find pages on astrobetter.com [https://www.astrobetter.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Navigating+the+Faculty+Job+Search, https://www.astrobetter.com/wiki/Interview+Advice] contain the most comprehensive astro-specific job market advice that I know…

…building instruments during a pandemic – status updates on the LLAMAS and WINTER instruments’ 1) Furesz et al, 2020 https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11447.toc https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562803 https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11447/114470A/Status-update-of-LLAMAS–a-wide-field-of-view/10.1117/12.2562803.short 2) Lourie et al, 2020 https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11447.toc https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561210 https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11447/0000/The-wide-field-infrared-transient-explorer-WINTER/10.1117/12.2561210.short?SSO=1…

Travel Booking and Reimbursements The Concur system (accessible from the Atlas full catalog) is used for online travel arrangements & reporting. All MIT-related travel must be registered in Covid Travel….

…with a focus on enabling 21cm cosmology, is located at MKI. The MWA is currently being commissioned, and early operations will commence in July 2013. See www.mwatelescope.org for more information….

The youngest member of an important class of objects has been found using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Australia Compact Telescope Array. A composite image shows the…