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Catching planets in the makingIt took a real oddball of a star--or rather, pair of stars--to provide the exceptional conditions that made detection possible of the intermediate stage of planet formation by a team of astronomers, including an MIT physicist, this March. April 2, 2008 Eyes on the stars, even under cloudy skiesMIT student Cristina Thomas has been making observations of asteroids using a large NASA telescope in Hawaii, at least once a month for more than three years now. But to get to the telescope, she needs only to walk down the hall. March 19, 2008 MIT aims to search for Earth-like planetsMIT scientists, with Google's help, are designing a satellite-based observatory that could for the first time provide a sensitive survey of the entire sky to search for planets outside the solar system that appear to cross in front of bright stars. March 19, 2008 The next-best thing to being on MarsTwo MIT students are currently living, working and communicating with the outside world as if they were on a mission to Mars. Whenever they go outside their small, round habitat, they don spacesuits and pass through an airlock. February 25, 2008 Down to earth: Alumnus returns from space stationDaniel Tani SB '84, SM '88 returned to the Kennedy Space Center aboard space shuttle Atlantis on Feb. 20. Tani spent 120 days in orbit aboard the International Space Station as a member of the Expedition 16 crew. February 22, 2008 Physicist describes strange world of quarks, gluonsMIT physics professor John Negele will talk about the theory that governs interactions of quarks and gluons, known as quantum chromodynamics, during a Feb. 17 presentation to the AAAS annual meeting in Boston. February 17, 2008 MIT to lead development of new moon telescopesNASA has selected a proposal by an MIT-led team to develop plans for an array of radio telescopes on the far side of the moon that would probe the so-called "Dark Ages," the earliest formation of the basic structures of the universe. February 15, 2008 Mercury rising: New images draw interestProfessor Maria Zuber, head of MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, addresses a Jan. 30 NASA press conference in which results from the first mission to visit the planet Mercury in 30 years were unveiled. February 1, 2008 |
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