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Galileo Project Receives Donation
The Galileo Project, led by Professor Avi Loeb, ITC director, was awarded $260,000 in support of its research mission: The goal of the Galileo Project is to bring the search for extraterrestrial technological signatures of Extraterrestrial Technological...
Logo for the John Templeton Foundation

Ghosting the Galaxy: The Star That Left Without Saying Goodbye
ITC members Morgan MacLeod , Lecturer in Astronomy at Harvard, and Avi Loeb , Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard and Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC), contributed to the announcement in Science on February 12...
Gemini said A deep-space visualization showing a massive, glowing white core at the center. Surrounding the light is a dense, intricate cloud of fiery red and dark orange nebular filaments spreading outward in a turbulent, circular pattern.

3–2! ITC Soccer Tradition Lives On
ITC Soccer Cup took place on Saturday, August 16, 2024, at Harvard's Cumnock Field. The match pitted faculty and post-docs against graduate students. For the first time in several years, the graduate students won! Thank you to everyone who participated in...
Group photo of the players in the 2025 ITC Soccer Match

Meet "Betelbuddy"
After more than a century of anticipation, astronomers have now directly imaged what appears to be a long-hypothesized companion star to Betelgeuse , the red supergiant in Orion’s shoulder. The discovery comes on the heels of predictions made by members...
Betelgeuse and companian star, nicknamed "Betelbuddy"

ITC Soccer Match
ITC Soccer Cup took place on July 27, 2024 at Harvard's Jordan Field. The soccer match was faculty vs graduate students. The faculty won.
ITC Soccer

 Michael Johnson recognized with the Breakthrough Foundation
Michael Johnson was just recognized with the Breakthrough Foundation “New Horizons in Physics” for their studies of photon rings – light trapped in orbit around black holes – and their work showing how they can be detected with future experiments https:/...
Michael Johnson