MITKavli
@MITKavli
Followers
1K
Following
2K
Media
76
Statuses
1K
Astrophysics and space research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Joined May 2019
'For the Moon', a short film on Ronald McNair will premier August 5th at the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival...based on Carl McNair's book, 'In the Spirit of Ronald E. McNair: Astronaut.'
1
0
1
See 3Q: Exploring the universe’s “first light” https://t.co/OpbY8jSKYl Q: What have astronomers seen of the universe’s “first light”? Q: What have people learned about how the telescope works in its first year? Q: What are you hoping to see in the second year of observations?
1
0
1
NASA’s Webb Proves Galaxies Transformed the Early Universe https://t.co/IIIqyQHAeL
science.nasa.gov
In the early universe, the gas between stars and galaxies was opaque – energetic starlight could not penetrate it. But 1 billion years after the big bang, the
1
0
6
The Webb Telescope: A New Era in Astronomy, Jane Rigby, astrophysicist and JWST operations project scientist explains how astronomers use advanced telescopes, shares a few stories about how the Webb started, and the people who made it a reality. https://t.co/Yk1hERRwEr
calendar.mit.edu
The museum is excited to offer another look at the extraordinary breadth and depth of the James Webb Telescope program. Hear from Jane Rigby, an astrophysicist and JWST operations project scientist...
0
0
5
MIT & Canadian astronomers double the number of known repeating FRBs.
0
0
2
O4 run - Gravitational Wave Detectors Start Next Observing Run to Explore the Secrets of the Universe
0
0
0
Star consumes an orbiting world - as the Sun will the earth a few billion years hence! https://t.co/OH2c6UtBB7
0
0
0
Galaxies birthed by dying stars! An international team, including MKI researchers, uses infrared and millimeter-wave bands to reveal the primordial ‘soup’ of synthesized elements leaking from nascent galaxies.
nature.com
Nature - Investigation of the physical conditions of the circumgalactic medium led to detection of two compact [C ii]-emitting galaxies with narrow linewidths at a redshift of 5.7, associated...
0
3
6
This South African telescope hopes to see radiation stretched 10 times by cosmic expansion since it was emitted 13.5 billion years ago. So far, it's telling us how galaxies differed in the early universe @UCBerkeley @UCB_Astronomy
news.berkeley.edu
Though not yet complete, the HERA telescope in South Africa's Karoo is already telling astronomers about conditions in the early universe before stars ignited
0
2
1
European Research Council Synergy Grant Awarded for Gravitational Research to MIT’s Nergis Mavalvala and Collaborators #ERCSyG
https://t.co/WaNaa1sMMD
@ScienceMIT @MIT_Physics @MITKavli
0
1
5
TESS, a NASA mission led and operated by MIT, has identified over 5,000 planet candidates outside of our solar system.
newsweek.com
Some of the exoplanets orbit their stars so tightly they zoom round in less than a day. Others are tantalizingly Earthlike.
1
22
81
Congrats to all the MIT students and faculty who contributed to the @OSIRISREx mission! Scientists from EAPS, @MITAeroAstro @MITKavli and @MITLL, in partnership with @HCObservatory, build an instrument to analyze soil collected from the astroid #Bennu
https://t.co/Owrgu2thA2
0
8
37
36 years ago today, 7 astronauts lost their lives as the Challenger Space Shuttle failed shortly after launch. Among them was Dr. Ron McNair, MIT PhD '76, and the second Black astronaut in space. We remember and honor him today & every day. @ScienceMIT @MITAeroAstro @MIT_Physics
1
12
42
Excited to finally share a new paper on the kilonova discovery potential of the Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER): https://t.co/UJPumlLpV3 with Danielle Frostig, @gmo_omg, Viraj Karambelkar, @sasomao and others @MITKavli, @PMACaltech, and @IJCLab 1/4
arxiv.org
The Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a new 1 $\text{deg}^2$ seeing-limited time-domain survey instrument designed for dedicated near-infrared follow-up of kilonovae from binary...
1
5
22
“What we find exciting about our result is that to some level of confidence we can say binary neutron stars are probably more of a goldmine than neutron star-black hole mergers,” says lead author Hsin-Yu Chen, a postdoc in @MITKavli
news.mit.edu
Most elements lighter than iron are forged in the cores of stars, but scientists have puzzled over what could give rise to gold, platinum, and the rest of the universe’s heavy elements. An MIT study...
1
1
4
Mark Vogelsberger: Simulating galaxy formation for clues to the universe https://t.co/Es9eqP0D8m
@ScienceMIT @MITKavli #astrophysics #IllustrisTNG
0
3
9
A huge thank you to @SkypeScientist for connecting our budding astronomers with a real life astronomer from @MITKavli today. Thanks for answering all of our space questions, Dr. Günther!!
3
1
8
Happy #GravitationalWavesDay!!! #OTD in 2015, at 09:50:45 UTC, @LIGO made the first ever detection of #GravitationalWaves from the collision of two #BlackHoles more than a billion light years away. Read the amazing story of #GW150914 in our @LIGO magazine https://t.co/MSyKCYLzyF
6
46
128