Dr. Bhaskar Dutta, professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University and director of the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, has been elected as a 2020 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the world’s largest organization of physicists. No more than one-half of 1 percent of […]
Earlier this month, crews at Stanford University’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory celebrated a major milestone in astronomy — the first 3,200-megapixel digital photographs taken with the world’s largest digital camera for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The collection of images, which are the largest ever captured in a […]
The GMTO Corporation, the organization managing the development of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) on behalf of its US and international founders including Texas A&M University, has received a $17.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to accelerate prototyping and testing of some of the most powerful optical and infrared technologies ever engineered […]