Haystack’s Al Weatherwax, representing @MIT and @usscar-antarctic.bsky.social at SCAR 2026! Antarctic science: peak international collaboration and vital polar research 🧊❄️
In @mit.edu News: astronomers map a magnetic “skeleton” funneling gas into a stellar nursery! Haystack's Thushara Pillai is lead author on a SIMPLIFI study at iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... revealing how magnetic fields guide assembly in a star-forming region. news.mit.edu/2026/mit-hay... 🌟
MIT Haystack Observatory’s SIMONe meteor radar network caught something at the same time that a loud boom was heard over eastern Massachusetts. Scientists are already analyzing the data!
Congratulations to Chester Ruszczyk, recipient of the MIT Infinite Mile Award 2026!
Congratulations to Heidi Demers, recipient of the MIT Infinite Mile Award 2026!
Haystack's John Foster on imaging recent aurora: among the 10% top-viewed authors in Geophysical Research Letters (hello @wiley.com) for 2025! Check out the paper, "Imaging the May 2024 Extreme Aurora With Ionospheric Total Electron Content," at: doi.org/10.1029/2024... #TopViewedArticle
A delightful evening at the MIT Museum w/ our lovely colleagues: Haystack scientist Dhiman Mondal gave a great talk on precise measurement of the Earth's rotation and how we use geodesy to keep accurate time—necessary for GPS to get you where you want to be! mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/mit...
COME WORK WITH US: once again, we're hiring! Haystack Observatory needs technicians and an HVAC mechanic. Is this you? or someone you know? Please see: www.haystack.mit.edu/about/careers/ for details! You won't find a cooler place to work—thanks to our future HVAC mechanic in particular 🧊 😁
STEVE: viral auroral phenomenon, confusing acronym choice! (It's Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement) Haystack is one of the organizers of an NSF conference where citizen aurora chasers and geospace scientists collaborate to solve the mysteries of STEVE. youtu.be/b4WlLbJoCSs?...
The Mysterious Phenomenon Called "Steve" Discovered by Amateur Photographers
YouTube video by Real Stories
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Happy World Radio Day! More than just broadcasting: radio science lets us explore the universe beyond optical wavelengths.
Applications to our REU summer undergraduate internship program are due Feb. 1! Come work with us 😁 www.haystack.mit.edu/haystack-pub...
Congratulations to @kazuakiyama.bsky.social and colleagues! Good news for black hole research and for science. We will miss you but are very happy for you and @heriotwattuni.bsky.social!
The Royal Society@royalsociety.org · 9mo agoThree outstanding international researchers are set to establish new research groups in the UK through the Royal Society’s fast-track scheme for global talent, the Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route. #RSGrants royalsociety.org/news/2025/12...
We use it to help image black holes and keep your GPS and universal time accurate! Very handy #interferometry #ftw
Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 9mo agoA technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces of nearby stars
We are now accepting applications for our summer 2026 undergraduate research program! www.haystack.mit.edu/reu Please share with undergraduates interested in working with us! ✨ It's a great way to get experience with hands-on research and learn more—a lot more—about radio science in action.
This year's annual Buonsanto Memorial Lecture is next week! On Tuesday, November 25, 2025, at 3:00pm ET, Dr. Anthea Coster will present "Above the Clouds, Below the Stars: Chasing Ionospheric Storms." For more information, see www.haystack.mit.edu/buonsanto. Please join us!
Michael J. Buonsanto Memorial Lecture Series - MIT Haystack Observatory
Radio science & technology research center
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Check out the new @physicsworld.bsky.social article on Haystack's trail-blazing EDGES experiment and astronomers' quest to detect primordial hydrogen: physicsworld.com/a/cosmic-daw... In it, Sarah Wild interviews Rigel Cappallo, one of the scientists on Haystack's inventive EDGES team!
Cosmic dawn: the search for the primordial hydrogen signal – Physics World
Sarah Wild talks to astronomers across the world who are on a hunt for a subtle hydrogen signal that could confirm or disprove our ideas on the universe’s evolution
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Congratulations to Haystack director Phil Erickson! Phil gave the prestigious CEDAR Distinguished Lecture on June 23 at the recent 2025 NSF joint Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) and Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Workshop. www.haystack.mit.edu/news/erickso...
It's #NEWSDR time again (already)! The New England Workshop for Software Defined Radio is May 29-30 @wpiedu.bsky.social (WPI): newsdr.org/workshops/ne... Haystack researchers Ryan Volz & Kazu Akiyama will give invite talks this year! Register by May 22 to attend: newsdr.org/workshops/ne...
At Boston Common in support of science—America's superpower—already making stuff great! #marchforscience #standupforscience
In Antarctica right now, a Haystack team is preparing 3 SGIPs (seismo-geodetic ice penetrators) to land on the Ross Ice Shelf and monitor ice melting and movement. The SGIP devices will be dropped by helicopters and embedded into the ice: more at www.haystack.mit.edu/news/team-se... polar #geodesy
Team sent to Antarctica to measure ice shelf stability - MIT Haystack Observatory
Radio science & technology research center
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Congratulations to Larisa Goncharenko on her AGU 2024 Union Fellow award, for incredible accomplishments in atmospheric research and contributions to the geospace science community! www.haystack.mit.edu/news/lpg-agu...
Geospace lead scientist & asst. director (spoiler alert: & also newly elected AGU Fellow—more on this after a special honors award ceremony tonight!) Larisa Goncharenko, speaking at #agu24 on "Separation of Disturbances from Natural and Anthropogenic Sources in the Ionosphere Above Ukraine"!
Hello from the AGU Annual Meeting 2024! Having a great time with our ~27,000 close friends here at #agu24 in Washington, DC! Check out our AGU talks and posters on the MIT Haystack program—and please come say hello if you're here! www.haystack.mit.edu/agu24_haysta... (our #AGU schedule)
Hello undergraduates and faculty: applications for our summer science internships are open! This NSF-funded program provides excellent, paid hands-on research opportunities. Full project list & more: www.haystack.mit.edu/reu Come work w/us at MIT—black holes, polar snow, & more! #radioastronomy
What would the world around you look like if you were staring at a black hole? To see it, check out ``Black Hole Vision'', an iPhone app simulating a black hole in your iPhone camera! The app has been developed by Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) scientists. #astronomy apps.apple.com/us/app/black...
Black Hole Vision
What would the world around you look like if you were staring at a black hole? This application places a black hole in the field of view of your iPhone’s camera and gravitationally
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We had a great time hosting the #NSF #SpectrumX workshop, including students and staff from institutions across the country! Spectrum management: more important now than ever. Thank you for a productive visit—looking forward to getting this new technology out in the field with you! #radioastronomy
Couple of highlights this week: • Shipping out not one but TWO Antarctic projects (ice monitoring, polar aurora), PLUS a scientist (heads-up, #mcmurdo) • Software radio construction w/students and SpectrumX, a #NationalScienceFoundation spectrum management center—essential work today More soon!
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