Recent BU Astronomy Alumnus Paul Dalba (GRS PhD ’18, advisor Prof. Muirhead) has been awarded the prestigious 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. “The Heising-Simons Foundation is pleased to announce this year’s 51 Pegasi b Fellowship recipients. The eight early-career scientists were selected based on their outstanding research achievements, innovative research plans, and potential to impact the […]
In a recent article from The Boston Globe, IAR’s Assistant Professor Philip Muirhead discusses the reasoning for his work and what his ‘Holy Grail’ would be: finding evidence that we are not alone in the universe. “The more we learn about the universe, the more alone it feels. In our evolution from an earth-centered universe, […]
In a recent article from The Daily Free Press, IAR’s Assistant Professor Philip Muirhead discusses his group’s work assembling a list of red dwarf planets for the new NASA satellite, TESS, to explore with Lillian Ilsley-Greene. ‘Just under three years ago, Philip Muirhead, an astronomy professor at BU, was asked to assemble a team to […]
In a recent article from BU Research, IAR’s Assistant Professor Philip Muirhead discusses what the latest landing on Mars, InSight, could teach us with Doug Most. “Red dwarf stars are much cooler and fainter than the sun; the sun is ten times brighter than even the brightest red dwarfs (which are actually almost yellow), and […]
Kate Becker of the BU Research team joins IAR graduate student Paul Dalba, Assistant Professor Phil Muirhead, and Astronomy major Sheila Sagear in the new Liu Astronomical Observing Center. ‘Modern astronomy looks a lot different from its popular depiction. Instead of squinting into a telescope eyepiece beneath a creaky old dome, today’s astronomers work at […]
Philip Muirhead, Julie Skinner, Mark Veyette, and Aurora Kesseli spoke to The Daily Free Press this week about their research team focused on finding habitable planets with space telescopes. ‘“The problem with telescopes on the ground is that you get interrupted when you’re observing because the sun is coming up,” Muirhead said. “You can’t operate […]
This week, USA TODAY spoke to many astronomy professors, including BU’s Philip Muirhead, about the recent discovery of a cluster of seven potentially habitable planets. ‘The new herd of planets circles a tiny dim bulb of a star called TRAPPIST-1, which shares its name with the Belgian-operated telescope that discovered some of the planets… “Of […]
In a recent article from BU Today, IAR PhD student Paul Dalba talks about the incredible progress he was able to make in studying Saturn as if it were an exoplanet using the Shared Computing Cluster as Philip Muirhead suggested. ‘The cluster enabled precise measurements of the degree that light is bent as it passes […]
In an article from WIRED, Philip Muirhead and other astronomers talk about the split between looking for life around stars akin to our sun or around M dwarf stars. ‘While some astronomers continue to focus on M dwarfs, others still want to target sun-like stars. For now, researchers are poised to learn more about M-dwarf […]
Dr. Philip Muirhead and CSP’s Dr. Joshua Semeter talked to The Daily Free Press this week about solar storms and what can be observed of them through aurora. ‘But some particles and magnetic plasma do enter the Earth’s atmosphere if the storm is strong enough. When this happens, magnetic displays such as the northern lights […]