Tana Joseph
Credit: Willie Runte. All rights reserved.
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Occupation: Astronomer and Science Communicator
Year born: 1984
Research Areas: Extragalactic X-ray Binaries, Radio Astronomy
"Science isn’t done until it is communicated."
Star Death
Credit: Willie Runte. All rights reserved.
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Type Ia Supernovae
Karl Schwarzschild
Occupation: Physicist & Astronomer
Year born: 1873
Research Areas: Relativity, Black Holes, Quantum Theory, Stars, Comets
"Mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, march in one front."
Stephen Hawking
Credit: Jim Campbell/Aero-News Network
Occupation: Physicist & Author
Year born: 1942
Research Areas: Cosmology, Theoretical Physics
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Credit: Starchild Project NASA
Occupation: Astrophysicist
Year born: 1910
Research Areas: Stellar Evolution, Black Holes
"My motive has not been to solve a single problem, but to acquire a perspective of an entire area"
Image of the Month - February 2019
Gamma-ray Bursts
Gamma-ray bursts (or GRBs) are very short and intense bursts of gamma-ray radiation. If we take a look at the electromagnetic spectrum, we can see that gamma rays are even higher in energy than X-rays. This makes the events which create them, extremely high-energy events.