BU Astronomy Alum Awarded 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

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Congratulations to Department alum Paul Dalba (GRS’18,’15) on receiving a 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. The 51 Pegasi b Fellowship was established in 2017 by the Heising-Simons Foundation and named for the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a Sun-like star. The postdoctoral fellowship award provides up to $385,000 of support for independent research over three years. Paul […]

Common Ground – on the rooftop

We held the first-ever mask-less Astronomy coffee break up on the rooftop this morning. Weather was great as were the conversations with students, staff, and faculty. Looks like this will be a successful weekly event – bring your mug next week and join us! (Note the “dual-use” telescope mounts being “pressed” into service)

Professor Philip Muirhead on NOVA

Our own Professor Philip Muirhead appears in a short segment in the NOVA show on the ages of the stars, that first aired on October 27, 2021. See if you catch sight of him in the show!

Spooky Pumpkin Carving

On Tuesday, October 26, the seminar room (CAS 502) was transformed into a socially distanced Jack-O-Lantern factory with orange table coverings, plenty of graduate student pumpkin carvers, and a pumpkin (no spice) aroma that wafted down all the hallways.  All enjoyed hot cider, spooky (individually wrapped) treats, and lots of mask-to-mask conversations and jokes. The […]

Open Nights featured on Channel 10 News

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Quinn Sykes and the Observatory Open Nights were listed as a ‘bucket List’ item on the Channel 10 news: https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/Free-Stargazing-Offers-the-Best-View-in-Boston-490010131.html    

4/30 Morley: From Exotic to Familiar: Observing Exoplanet Atmospheres in the Coming Decade

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Astrophysics Seminar Monday, April 30, 2018 3:30pm, CAS 502 From Exotic to Familiar: Observing Exoplanet Atmospheres in the Coming Decade Caroline Morley Harvard CfA Abstract: Observations of exoplanets to date have used the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes to reveal exotic exoplanet atmospheres. Substantial resources have been dedicated to characterizing the handful of planets with […]

4/23 Lee: What Can Modeling Chemical Abundance Ratio Distributions in Dwarf Galaxies Tell Us?

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Astrophysics Seminar Monday, April 23, 2018 3:30pm, CAS 502 What Can Modeling Chemical Abundance Ratio Distributions in Dwarf Galaxies Tell Us? Duane Lee MIT Kavli Institute Abstract: The chemical abundances found in stars convey a wealth of information on stellar evolution from stellar nucleosynthesis (e.g., stellar core burning, AGB phase burning, explosive supernova phase fusion, […]