Astrophysics Branch
Marshall Space Flight Center's Astrophysics Branch uses space and ground-based observatories to peer back to the earliest epochs of the universe, unravel its mysteries, and study the most violent explosions in our galaxy and beyond. Our goal is to help discover how the universe works, explore how it began and evolved, and search for life on planets around other stars.
Chandra’s public engagement coordinator, Kirk Pierce, presented five talks to over 400 middle school students at Ft. Payne Middle School on Wednesday, 1/18/23. Featured in the presentation were engaging images of Chandra science discoveries and sonification discussions.
Chandra’s outreach team from Marshall Space Flight Center manned a portion of the NASA SMD exhibit booth as planned during the 241st American Astronomical Society’s winter meeting held 1/8-12/23 in Seattle, Washington. Over 3K participants visited the exhibit floor to …
The Fermi GBM Team was recently notified by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) science consortium that there will be a slight delay before beginning the pending “O4” observation run…until 5/24/23. This observing run will also be extended from 12 months to 18 …
FERMI GBM Team Notified of Updated Gravitational Wave Observatory Schedule Read More »
Tyson Littenberg (ST12) organized and convened a Special Session at the January American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting on behalf of the NASA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Study Team titled “LISA: A Time Domain and Multimessenger Mission.” The special session …
American Astronomical Society Session on Gravitational Wave and Multimessenger Astronomy Read More »
One of Chandra’s latest discovery titled “Chandra: ‘Listen’ to the Light Echoes From a Black Hole” was featured in the 1/30/22 edition of the Marshall Star. For more information visit: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/about/star/star221130.html. Another new discovery titled “Astronomers See Stellar Self-Control in …