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BU's LEXI Telescope Lands on the Moon! | Student Explains Mission
Boston University’s LEXI telescope has landed on the moon and is already capturing groundbreaking data! Hear from BU student Natalie Lett (COM’27) about this groundbreaking mission and the research it will advance. This project is in [...]collaboration with Johns Hopkins and NASA Goddard.
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This Astrophysics Student Studied 20,000 White Dwarf Stars
For a lot of people, the unknown is a scary prospect—but not for Boston University astrophysics student Ariyana Bonab (CAS’25). She’s long been curious about space and the universe’s biggest mysteries—what’s inside a black hole, what [...]happens when stars die—and known she wanted to study astrophysics since she was a kid.
Now, she studies white dwarf stars in a research group led by JJ Hermes, a BU College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of astronomy. White dwarf stars are the leftover cores of dying stars. In her project, funded by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Bonab has looked at over 54,000 images of white dwarfs, and is trying to determine the composition of each one.
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What Is A Leap Year, Anyway?
Ever wonder why we have Leap Year—which adds a day to our February calendars—every four years? In this video, JJ Hermes, a CAS assistant professor of astronomy, explains the science behind Leap Year.
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Merav Opher reads "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
To mark the 20th anniversary of Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project, members of the Boston University community were invited to share their favorite poems. In the video above, astrophysicist Merav Opher reads "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop.
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