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This diagram illustrates the major components of LOFAR. Radiation is collected by wideband dipole antennas above a ground screen, and signals are immediately digitized. The antennas are clustered together in groups of approximately 100, forming "stations." An artist's impression of one station, located in a generic desert site, is shown (courtesy of ASTRON, Netherlands). Stations are connected by ...

Haystack, CSR involved in major new digital telescope development

October 17, 2001

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

This image shows the central region of the Milky Way as seen by Chandra. The bright, point-like source at the center was produced by a huge X-ray flare that occurred in the vicinity of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy, associated with the compact radio source Sagittarius A*. During the observation, the X-ray source at the galactic center brightened dramatically in a few minu...

Chandra catches Milky Way monster snacking on matter

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

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 (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

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