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November 16, 2005

The X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer observatory recently took these images of a galaxy cluster (one for each of four cameras and telescopes key to the device).

MIT space cameras take first pictures

October 14, 2005

Image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of a short gamma-ray burst burst discovered by an MIT team using NASA's High Energy Transient Explorer satellite.

HETE satellite solves mystery of short gamma ray bursts

October 6, 2005

Forum set to bring space down to earth

September 21, 2005

An illustration of convection in a sun-like star. Neon, along with atoms of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, plays an important role in regulating the rate at which energy flows from nuclear reactions in the Sun's core to its surface.

Neon study resolves sun dilemma

July 29, 2005

A section of the ALH84001 Mars meteorite. Evidence from this meteorite led MIT researchers to the conclusion that Mars has been extremely cold for billions of years.

So cool: Study shows Mars in 4-billion-year freeze

July 21, 2005

An artist's conception of Pluto and its moon Charon.

MIT-Williams team catches rare light show

July 20, 2005

Revised asteroid scale aids understanding of impact risk

April 12, 2005

Emily Levesque, a junior in physics, observed red supergiant stars in the Milky Way as a member of an international team that used this telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile in November 2004.

MIT undergrad IDs supersized stars

February 3, 2005

Astronomers have discovered evidence for physics beyond Einstein's general relativity. This artist's conception shows a galactic black hole being orbited by a ripple in spacetime--a distortion in the fabric of space itself.

Spacetime wave orbits black hole

January 10, 2005

Schematic shows the 25.4-meter Giant Magellan Telescope next to a 6.5-meter Magellan telescope. The 83-foot giant telescope is as wide as an eight-story building is tall.

Giant telescope will keep an eye on planets in other solar systems

December 17, 2004

This cutaway image is of the 37-meter radio telescope and radar that have been in operation for 40 years at MIT's Haystack Observatory in Wesford, Mass.

Haystack Observatory celebrates 40th anniversary today

October 27, 2004

After trio of explosions, scientists say supernova is imminent

October 1, 2004

Image of the center of our galaxy taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, which MIT space scientists played a key part in developing.

Kavli gift brightens study of dark energy

August 3, 2004

MIT President Charles Vest welcomes Lt. Col. Mike Fincke, whose live image from aboard the International Space Station is projected behind him, to Fincke's 15th-year MIT reunion in Kresge Auditorium.

'E.T.' Fincke phones home for reunion

June 9, 2004

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