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Star Swallows Planet

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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...

Sophia Sánchez-Maes

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Sophia Sánchez-Maes is a physicist whose work bridges observational, computational, and instrumental approaches to study plasma processes in extreme astrophysical environments. She develops high-cadence soft X-ray instrumentation for solar flare imaging...

Magdalena Siwek

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Research Interests: Supermassive black hole merger simulations

Michael Foley

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Research Interests: Massive stars, supernovae, stellar feedback

Betty Hu

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Betty is a graduate student in the Physics Department at Harvard University. Her advisor is Prof. Loeb. She studies black-hole-related astrophysical phenomena, such as collisions between supermassive black holes and between the stars surrounding them...

Evan Bauer

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Evan Bauer studies stars and how they evolve. He is especially interested in the physics of white dwarf stars, subdwarf stars, binary evolution, and interactions between stars in binaries. He also works on computational methods for stellar astrophysics as...

Sarah Jeffreson

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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 environment and the small-scale physics of star formation and stellar feedback in setting the star...