Black Holes
Tana Joseph
Credit: Willie Runte. All rights reserved.
Used by permission.
Occupation: Astronomer and Science Communicator
Year born: 1984
Research Areas: Extragalactic X-ray Binaries, Radio Astronomy
"Science isn’t done until it is communicated."
Samuel Okoye
Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives,
John Irwin Slide Collection
Low res image used with permission
Occupation: Astrophysicist
Year born: 1939
Wanda Díaz-Merced
Credit: IAU/M. Zamani
Occupation: Astronomer
Research Areas: Sonification, Black Holes
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Credit: Starchild Project NASA
Occupation: Astrophysicist
Year born: 1910
Research Areas: Stellar Evolution, Black Holes
"My motive has not been to solve a single problem, but to acquire a perspective of an entire area"
Image of the Month - February 2019
White Dwarf
Credit: NASA, S. Charbinet
Life Cycle of a Star
All stars form in nebulae, which are huge clouds of gas and dust. Though they shine for many thousands, and even millions of years, stars do not last forever. The changes that occur in a star over time and the final stage of its life depend on a star's size.
