Today in #AstronomyNews, a team led by Carnegie's Andrew Newman used #JWST and gravitational lensing 🔍 to peer into the heart of an early-universe galaxy and directly measure its dormant black hole—a cosmic first!
Full Press Release: bit.ly/3S4TbAR
🌊 Happy #WorldOceansDay! The ocean shapes our weather, our climate, and nearly all life on Earth.
But here's a question the experts can't agree on: where did all this water come from?👇
https://carnegiescience.edu/where-did-earth-get-its-water
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🧭 In 1907, a Carnegie "magnetician" named Harlan Wilbur Fisk boarded a ship for Bermuda with a magnetometer, an observing tent, and a mystery to solve. #Carnegie125
🔗 carnegiescience.edu/object-11-bermuda-cahiers
One of our most beloved of our educational initiatives fits inside the trunk of a car! The Inflatable Planetarium is the ninth object in the #Carnegie125 series.
We sat down with Outreach Coordinator Jeff Rich to learn more. Read the full Q&A👇
carnegiescience.edu/object-9-inflatable-planetarium
Next week, we'll be listening to #Bermuda in stereo for the first time!
Follow along on the @CarnegiePlanets Instagram for behind-the-scenes looks at the fieldwork, science, and story of this mysterious volcanic island. #CarnegieBEST
Learn more 👇
carnegiescience.edu/bermuda-under-surface
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To learn what distant 🌟or 🪐 are made of, astronomers read hidden signals in their light. From IR to UV, every molecule leaves a signature. It takes the whole range to read the universe.
This month, let's celebrate the full spectrum—in our cosmos & community!
🌈 carnegiescience.edu/universe-color
For Jeffrey Dukes, fieldwork looks like a 30-year conversation with a thousand-acre preserve in the California foothills. #Fieldwork #Ecology
Read the story: carnegiescience.edu/what-place-remembers
POV: Jeff Rich is about to fit the universe into your classroom 🌌✨
Happy #InternationalDayOfPlanetariums! Inside our portable planetarium, kids explore the Solar System, go stargazing in Chile, and travel in time—all from their own classroom. 🔭✨
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3PqHHGY
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Meet a scientist who treats the ocean like a giant, slow bioreactor. 🌊🦠
This #WorldOceansDay, learn how Carnegie's Emily Zakem studies the invisible marine microbes that help drive the ocean's carbon cycle and shape Earth's climate.
👉 carnegiescience.edu/meet-emily-zakem
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Magic happens when geographers get together with astrophysicists!! Thank you so much to @carnegiescience.bsky.social for visiting us during our Geodesign Summit and discussing ways that "geospatial" + "digital twins" can apply to "cities of stars" and the telescopes that discover them!
#GISchat 🧪
