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This animation illustrates the accretion flow, with gas from a large companion star swirling around a tiny neutron star, attracted by the neutron star's gravity.

Star in deep freeze chills theory

September 12, 2001

A Chandra image of neutron star KS 1731-260, remarkably cool after 12 years of being bombarded with hot gas from a companion star, not visible here. The now dim KS 1731-260 is the light blue object slightly above the midline of this image.

Star in deep freeze chills theory, MIT researchers report

September 6, 2001

A May 1998 image of Asteroid Edgerton near the constellation Scorpius. The image size is 16 by 23 arc minutes.

Asteroid named after 'Doc' Edgerton

August 15, 2001

Newly discovered Kuiper Belt object may be as large as Pluto's moon

July 18, 2001

Professor Nicholas Makris (second from right, standing) holds an acoustic sensor that his lab is developing. His research group hopes the sensor will help scientists learn whether there is a liquid ocean under the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa. The group includes (left to right) Sunwoong Lee, Purnima Ratilal, Josh Wilson, Michele Zanolin and Yi-San Lai (both seated at table), and Aaron Thode (far r...

Scientists seek ocean on Jupiter's moon through its sounds

June 6, 2001

ISS Expedition One Commander and MIT graduate William M. Shepherd (center) is flanked by Soyuz Commander Yuri P. Gidzenko (right) and Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev (left) in this crew photograph, taken during a break in training in Russia.

MIT and NASA: a match made in the heavens

June 6, 2001

MIT and NASA: a match made in the heavens

June 6, 2001

Simon Portegies Zwart rests his right hand on a prototype of the GRAPE-6, a computer he'll use to simulate star clusters (seen on monitor) and galactic nuclei.

Space researcher is using prototype of the world's fastest computer

June 6, 2001

MIT has produced more astronauts than any other private university

June 6, 2001

MIT, NASA: A match made in the heavens

June 6, 2001

ISS Expedition One Commander and MIT graduate William M. Shepherd (center) is flanked by Soyuz Commander Yuri P. Gidzenko (right) and Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev (left) in this crew photograph, taken during a break in training in Russia.

A full listing of NASA astronauts produced by the Institute

June 6, 2001

Professor Nicholas Makris (second from right, standing) holds an acoustic sensor that his lab is developing. His research group hopes the sensor will help scientists learn whether there is a liquid ocean under the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa. The group includes (left to right) Sunwoong Lee, Purnima Ratilal, Josh Wilson, Michele Zanolin and Yi-San Lai (both seated at table), and Aaron Thode

MIT researchers seek ocean on Jupiter's moon through its sounds

June 4, 2001

Professor Dava J. Newman shows the degree of mobility in the space suit she and colleagues designed and which they hope will be used in a future mission to Mars. Current space suits have feet that simply lock into place, but those in the next-generation suit will need to be able to move around more freely.

Videoconference looks at solutions to problems of traveling to Mars

May 23, 2001

Graduate student Susan Kern (left) and Erica McEvoy, a sophomore in physics, discuss data obtained from the Magellan telescope.

MIT catches MagIC from telescopes

May 16, 2001

The ISS Expedition 1 crew prior to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Left to right: crew commander William Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev.

Alum completes first space station expedition

May 2, 2001