…a more dynamic song . Colliding black holes don’t actually create sound waves, but they do create gravitational waves — distortions to space-time, the fabric of reality itself. In February,…

…It is also tidally locked, such that its star-facing “day” side is permanently roasting, while its “night” side is turned forever toward space. “Hot Jupiters are famous for having very…

…Diversity Emergency Employment Site Map © Copyright 2013 Massachusetts Institute of Technology – See more at: http://web.mit.edu/physics/news/spotlight/20130701_frebel.html#sthash.1I… Frebel named rising…

…astronomy, and planetary scienceHistory of scienceMIT HistoryFacultyTechnology and societySchool of ScienceNational Science Foundation (NSF)NASA Related LIGO The Advanced LIGO Instrument MIT LIGO Rainer Weiss Department of Physics School of Science…

Please join MKI’s Sidewalk Astrogazers Outreach Team for night-time observing on January 25 from 7:00-9:00pm. The group will have telescopes set up in North Court (behind Stata and Koch Buildings)…

Please join MKI’s Sidewalk Astrogazers Outreach Team for night-time observing on January 24, 25 from 7:00-9:00pm. The group will have telescopes set up in North Court (behind Stata and Koch…

Please join MIT’s Sidewalk Astrogazers Outreach Team for night-time observing on January 23, 24, 25 from 7:00-9:00pm. The group will have telescopes set up in North Court (behind Stata and…

…need to schedule an event in a conference room, the list of available rooms and times is online. Nayanika Yellepeddi maintains these schedules; see her to book a room for…

…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…

…Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Italy; two in the Netherlands with Nikhef; the MTA Wigner RCP in Hungary; the POLGRAW group in Poland; the University of Valencia in…