Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
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Johns Hopkins astrophysicists Brice Ménard and Charles L. Bennett have been appointed to the Euclid Consortium, the international team of scientists overseeing an ambitious space telescope project designed to probe the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter. NASA, a partner in the mission, recently announced their selection to the research team for Euclid.
February 12, 2013 Tags: astronomy, Brice Ménard, Charles Bennett, dark energy, dark matter, Euclid space telescope, European Space Agency, NASA
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, Technology
Members of the last crew to fly aboard the Space Shuttle “Endeavour” — the second-to-the-last flight in NASA’s space shuttle program — will discuss their mission to the International Space Station from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, August 4, at The Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus. Presented by the Maryland Space Grant Consortium and NASA, the event is free and open to the public. The crew will give a video presentation about the mission and answer questions from the audience in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy’s Schafler Auditorium, on the campus’s north end. Free parking is available in the Muller parking deck on San Martin Drive, adjacent to Bloomberg.
July 28, 2011 Tags: antimatter, astrophysicists, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, dark energy, European Space Agency, Homewood campus events, International Space Station, Mark Kelly, Maryland Space Grant Consortium, NASA, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Schafler Auditorium, space shuttle, Space Shuttle Endeavour, spacewalks, strange matter, STS-134
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
