Planetary Astronomy

Morgan MacLeod is a Lecturer in Astronomy whose research focuses on stellar encounters in binary systems and their imprints on the transient night sky. 

Morgan uses computational and simulation methods to trace close encounters of stars and compact objects...

Research Interests: The detection and characterization of exoplanets.

Received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Astronomy from UC Berkeley, and his B.S. in physics from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now known as the Missouri University of Science and Technology...

Research Interests:   Professor Sasselov studies the interaction between light and matter (radiative transfer) from stars and exoplanets to biomolecules at the origins of life, and astrobiology in general. He runs a photochemistry lab exploring the...

Research Interests: Radio and radar techniques: applications to astrometry, astrophysics, geophysics, planetary physics, and tests of theories of gravitation; Pre-college and college science education: curriculum development and teacher training.

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Research

Studies of the long-term dynamics of our solar system and extrasolar planetary systems. Observational surveys for Kuiper belt objects, Centaurs, and outer planet satellites using Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), Cerro Tololo Inter-American...

Charles Alcock is the former director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, a position he held for 17 years until January 2022. Charles remains a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and a Senior Scientist at the Smithsonian...