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October 10, 2018

Flatiron Institute Hosts National Science Foundation Workshop on the Plasma Physics of Neutron Star Mergers By Thomas Sumner

Astrophysicists Yuri Levin and Eliot Quataert lead a discussion during a meeting on the plasma physics of neutron star mergers

October 08, 2018

Suspected First Exomoon Comes Into Tantalizing Focus, Nature

An artist’s impression of the potential exomoon (blue) orbiting its planet

October 06, 2018

Scientists Find What Could Be a History-Making Moon, NPR

(Top row, from left) Titan, Earth's moon, Europa and Enceladus. (Bottom row, from left) Callisto, Charon, Ariel and lo

October 05, 2018

Sky Rivers: Streams of Stars Reveal the Galaxy’s Violent History, Science

Long-exposure image of star trails (sky motion) above desert inversion layers and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (a part of AURA) in Chile Atmospheric refraction plays with the light of any object on the horizon. Here the startrails display immense distortion and mirage as the light rays are refracted and bent in the atmosphere

October 01, 2018

Flatiron Institute Launches Center for Computational Mathematics

Building corner with blue tint over image. The letters FI in white are on top of the picture

September 26, 2018

Watch: Simulations of Stellar Geysers from Luminous Blue Variable Stars

Stellar Geysers represented by a 3-D Simulation

September 26, 2018

Elusive Origin of Stellar Geysers Revealed by 3-D Simulations By Thomas Sumner

A snapshot from a simulation of the churning gas that blankets a star 80 times the sun’s mass

September 24, 2018

Gaia Data Releases Spark Open-Access Success By Thomas Sumner

Scientists projected data collected by the Gaia spacecraft onto the dome of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York City