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A proposal led by a Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist has been selected by NASA as part of a science instrument upgrade to the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). The instrument, the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera (HAWC), will provide sensitive, versatile and powerful imaging capability to the SOFIA user community. The Johns Hopkins-led investigation is one of two that will allow SOFIA, with the enhanced HAWC, to measure the structure and strength of magnetic fields in diverse objects throughout the universe, such as star-forming clouds and galaxies. This will help astronomers better understand how stars, planets and galaxies form and evolve. Johannes Staguhn of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Astrophysical Sciences will lead the team.
April 20, 2012 Tags: aerospace, Boeing 747SP, formation of planets and galaxies, Goddard Space Flight Center, HAWC, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Johannes Staguhn, John Grunsfeld, Johns Hopkins University's Center for Astrophysical Sciences, NASA, SOFIA, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, Technology, University-Related
All three of the most highly cited scientific papers in the world published in 2011 were from an astrophysics space mission project led by a Johns Hopkins University scientist, according to Thomson Reuters’ Science Watch. The papers cite results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), a NASA spacecraft launched in 2001 that has revolutionized our knowledge of the history, composition, and geometry of the universe. The WMAP mission is led by Charles L. Bennett, Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Johns Hopkins Gilman Scholar
April 16, 2012 Tags: astrophysics, Charles L. Bennett, COBE, Comstock Prize in physics, Cosmic Background Explorer, Daniel Reich, Goddard Space Flight Center, Harvey Prize, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, John Mather, Johns Hopkins University, NASA, Peter Gruber Foundation, Science Watch, Shaw Prize, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, WMAP
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
A team of astronomers, including one at the Johns Hopkins University, has uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster similar to the massive ones seen today. The developing cluster, named COSMOS-AzTEC3, was discovered and characterized by multi-wavelength telescopes, including NASA’s Spitzer, Chandra and Hubble space telescopes, and the ground-based W.M. Keck Observatory and Japan’s Subaru Telescope. Johannes Staguhn, associate research scientist at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Astrophysical Sciences in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, contributed data to uncover the nature of a main cluster member.
January 12, 2011 Tags: black hole, Chandra, COSMOS-AzTEC3, GISMO, Goddard Space Flight Center, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hubble, Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, Johannes Staguhn, Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins University's Center for Astrophysical Sciences, Jon Morse, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, modern galaxy cluster, NASA, Peter Capak, proto-cluster, Spitzer, Subaru Telescope, W. M. Keck Observatory
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Physics and Astronomy
