Professor, Astronomy Dept, Boston University, Lover of Arts, Fellow at Fellow @Radinstitute
Newton, MA
Joined July 2020
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For a few million years, Earth may have been left out in the cold — literally.
New NASA research shows the Sun's protective bubble has shrunk smaller than Earth's orbit at least three times in the past 10 million years, possibly triggering ancient ice ages. 🌍
Full story: go.nasa.gov/4xhyql8
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Michal Lipson @Michallipson is now talking about silicon photonics, which is now critical for scaling computing! Plenary talk!
#CLEO22 – at San Jose, CA
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Research by Boston University @AstronomyatBU Professor @MeravOpher is featured in today's @thesun: "A TEAM of astronomers led by Boston University has revealed that the heliosphere is shaped like a croissant..."
thesun.co.uk/tech/18503459/n…
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The #heliosphere is a bubble created by the Sun's solar winds, and it extends beyond the planets in our system. Today, at noon ET, @MeravOpher talks about her work to understand the heliosphere's shape and its shielding properties. Join us! radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/…
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I will be giving a talk at Radcliffe (virtual but people need to register) on Heliosphere and will cover as well my latest paper on Habitability that is part of my project in Radcliffe Institute at Harvard. radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/…
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Another Breakthrough for Team Studying Our Solar System’s Protective Bubble bu.edu/articles/2021/another…
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New research led by @MeravOpher may explain why the heliosphere, a protective magnetic “force field” around our solar system, is likely unstable & irregularly shaped. “The universe is not quiet,” Opher says. “Our BU model doesn’t try to cut out the chaos.” spr.ly/6000JUnM4
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"Unfortunately," writes the astrophysicist and fellow @MeravOpher with coauthor Avi Loeb, "humans were not selected by Darwinian evolution to survive for long periods of time in space." thehill.com/opinion/technolo…
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SHIELD will be hosting our first Happy Hour on March 12, 3pm EST! Open to all Space Physics PhD and PostDoc students. Please register here: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https…
#academictwitter #womeninstem #space #academictwitter #research #solar #cosmic #voyager #NASA #spacephysics
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The 4th SHIELD webinar will be given by Stamatios Krimigis & Parisa Mostafavi.
Title: Coming From Far Away Lands: How different backgrounds Shape their Careers
Friday January 8 - 1pm Eastern
Register:bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
Flyer with bios attached.
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Congratulations to Andrea Ghez for the @NobelPrize in Physics!
"I hope I can inspire other young women into the field. It's a field that has so many pleasures. And if you're passionate about the science, there's so much that can be done."
nobelprize.org/prizes/physic…
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Join us at the first session of our Webinar Series on October 16, 2pm EST!
Heather Elliott will be discussing her own experience and providing tips on how to improve your writing skills in STEM.
Register for the event at this link,
bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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Some news on SyFy about our work syfy.com/syfywire/does-our-s…
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Very cool result, @MeravOpher! As #Parker explores its inner boundary, @NASAVoyager and neutral atom imagers near Earth are exploring the outer boundary of the bubble filled with solar magnetic field, called the heliosphere. This @NASASun research has only just begun!
🥐 Do we live in a bubble shaped like a deflated croissant?
Scientists have developed a new puffy model for the shape of the Sun’s heliosphere, or the magnetic bubble that surrounds our solar system: go.nasa.gov/31oJAqE
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Check out our newest interview! In this video Will tells us about his journey to become a scientist and how he is working to overcome imposter syndrome!
You can’t be what you can’t see:Will youtu.be/F_NWTsy6sgM via @YouTube
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The heliosphere acts as a shield protecting everything inside its bubble (including life on 🌎) from deadly cosmic rays in deep space. @SHIELD_drive team developed a predictive model of the heliosphere, featured in @NatureAstronomy July issue & cover. bu.edu/articles/2020/visuali…
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Our July issue is now available for reading!
nature.com/natastron/volumes…
The cover image is taken from an MHD simulation of the heliosphere, courtesy of Merav Opher's paper: nature.com/articles/s41550-0…
