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Astronomers Image Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87's Black Hole
03/24/2021

Astronomers Image Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87's Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration reveals a new ...
An image of a black hole
Math Professor Makes Breakthrough in Ramsey Numbers
03/17/2021

Math Professor Makes Breakthrough in Ramsey Numbers

Whitney Clavin
David Conlon and his colleague have dramatically shrunk the ...
Abstract picture of dots and lines
The Shape of Star Explosions
03/11/2021

The Shape of Star Explosions

Whitney Clavin
New polarization instrument at Palomar Observatory delivers first ...
Palomar's 200-inch Hale Telescope.
David Hsieh Receives Inaugural Brown Investigator Award
03/10/2021

David Hsieh Receives Inaugural Brown Investigator Award

Whitney Clavin
The Brown Science Foundation has bestowed one of two inaugural ...
A portrait of David Hsieh
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory Site Decommissioning Plan Approved by Maunakea Management Board
03/05/2021

Caltech Submillimeter Observatory Site Decommissioning Plan Approved by Maunakea Management Board

Caltech hopes to have its plans approved by early 2022, which ...
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
Touchdown! NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet
02/18/2021

Touchdown! NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet

Emily Velasco
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An artist's rendering of a rover drilling into a rock on the surface of Mars.
A Mars-landing Play-by-Play with JPL's Rob Manning
02/18/2021

A Mars-landing Play-by-Play with JPL's Rob Manning

Emily Velasco
Landing on another planet is no walk in the park. Rob Manning ...
An artist's rendering of a spacecraft with hot plasma around it as it passes into the Martian atmosphere.
New Advances Using Exotic Matter May Lead to Ultrafast Computing
02/17/2021

New Advances Using Exotic Matter May Lead to Ultrafast Computing

Whitney Clavin
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Honglie Ning in the lab
Caltech Professors Receive Sloan Research Fellowships
02/16/2021

Caltech Professors Receive Sloan Research Fellowships

Whitney Clavin
Two Caltech faculty members have been awarded Sloan Research ...
Photos of Wei Gao and Nick Hutzler
Watson Lecture on February 17: Mansi Kasliwal Explores "What Cosmic Fireworks Unveil About the Universe"
02/11/2021

Watson Lecture on February 17: Mansi Kasliwal Explores "What Cosmic Fireworks Unveil About the Universe"

The assistant professor of astronomy in the Division of Physics, ...
Mansi Kasliwal