A planet, roughly the size of Jupiter, was swallowed by its host star. We got to watch the energetic "burp" that followed. This discovery is the culmination of a collaborative effort between many observational and theoretical facilities. The observations, led by Kishalay De (MIT), were interpreted by Morgan MacLeod (CfA), shaping our understanding of this event as the swallowing of a planet.
Betty is a graduate student in the Physics Department at Harvard University. Her advisor is Prof. Loeb. She studies black-hole-related astrophysical...
Evan Bauer studies stars and how they evolve. He is especially interested in the physics of white dwarf stars, subdwarf stars, binary evolution, and... Read more about Evan Bauer
I am interested in how galaxies convert their gas into stars. In particular, I am interested in the relative roles played by the large-scale galactic...
Vadim’s research is centered on understanding how galaxies form and evolve. He explores this problem by running and analyzing supercomputer simulations of... Read more about Vadim Semenov
Morgan MacLeod is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Theoretical Astrophysics and ITC Member whose research focuses on stellar encounters in binary systems and...
Phillips Professor of Astronomy Director, Origins of Life Initiative Senior Advisor in the Sciences for Advanced Study
Research Interests: Professor Sasselov studies, among other things, extrasolar planets, and he's a co-investigator on NASA's Kepler mission, which is monitoring 100,000 stars in a three-year hunt for exoplanets -- including Jupiter-sized giants. Sasselov watches for exoplanets by looking for transits, the act of a planet passing across the face of its star, dimming its light and changing its chemical signature. This simple, elegant way of searching has led to a bounty of newly discovered planets. https://sasselov.cfa.harvard.edu/... Read more about Dimitar Sasselov