Mercury will make a rare transit across the face of the sun on the morning of Monday, November 11. Mercury will appear as a tiny dot, and viewers would need a safe solar filter to reduce the sun’s brightness by a factor of about a million in order to… Continue reading »
November 11 transit of Mercury to be observed by students and others from Williamstown, by Christian Lockwood ’20 from Emry Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida, and by Prof. Pasachoff from the Big Bear Solar Observatory in California. See http://transitofvenus.info… Continue reading »
Anne Jaskot will be attending and presenting at a Lorentz Center Workshop in Leiden, the Netherlands, “Revolutionary Spectroscopy of Today as a Springboard to Webb.” The workshop focuses on preparing for galaxy observations with the future James Webb Space Telescope and runs October… Continue reading »
https://astrosociety.org/who-we-are/awards/klumpke-roberts-award.html… Continue reading »
Bethany Cobb Kung ‘02Karen KwitterMatthew Hosek ’12… Continue reading »
https://communications.williams.edu/news-releases/5_24_2019_pasachoffnsfgrant/… Continue reading »
Ever wonder how many career paths have been taken by Williams alumni who graduated with the same major as you? On Tuesday, May 14, you can find out by joining Eph Connect for a virtual networking hour with your fellow majors across the decades. Continue reading »
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/black-hole-named-powehi-by-hawaii-university-professor/2019/04/11/b62f2978-5cc7-11e9-98d4-844088d135f2_story.html?utm_term=.127892e95a58… Continue reading »
“A successful deflection becomes more difficult to execute as warning time decreases,” said Megan Bruck Syal, a planetary defense researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. “For the shortest warning times, robust disruption and dispersal of the fragments may be the only viable option to prevent the impact.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/science/asteroids-nuclear-weapons.html… Continue reading »
Brendan Rosseau ‘19 has been chosen as the winner of the Global Space Congress Competition 2019, which is relevant to his senior thesis on space policy. As part of the prize, he will attend the Global Space Congress (March 19-21) in Abu Dhabi. https://www.globalspacecongress.com/events/global-space-congress-2019/event-summary-ae6d3a25a75a4cb88ea19b02560959fa.aspx… Continue reading »
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