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File Navy image: US. Naval aviator encounter with an unknown object in a fleeting pass. This image is a screen capture of the UAP observed in a video of the flyby captured by the pilot in the cockpit of a Navy fighter jet. (Credit: U.S. NAVY, VIA DVIDS.)

Aliens: Could Be Out There, But Don’t Trust the Clickbait

Illustration of a blazar. (Credit: IPAC-Caltech.)

IXPE helps solve black hole jet mystery

A simulation of a cosmic ray shower formed when a proton with 1TeV (1e12 eV) of energy hits the atmosphere about 20km above the ground. (Credit: Simulation by simulation was done using the AIRES package by S. Sciutto; visualization by D. Surendran, M. SubbaRao, and R. Landsberg.

The origin of life’s molecular asymmetry: An astrobiology perspective

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Identifying and characterizing millihertz gravitational wave sources and other minute to hour timescale compact object variables with synoptic surveys

Kevin Burdge (MIT) In Person and zoom

Campus, PAB 102/103

11:00 am

Jan

30

The James Webb Space Telescope: Atmospheres of Other Worlds

Prof. Bruce Macintosh (UC Observatories & KIPAC/Stanford)

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7:00 pm

Jan

31

Prospects for major advances in the detection of black widow pulsars and high amplitude variables using multiband lightcurves from the Vera Rubin Observatory

Kevin Burdge (MIT) In Person and zoom https://stanford.zoom.us/j/550904854

Campus, PAB 102/103

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