Astrophysics Science Division
The Astrophysics Science Division supports the GSFC astrophysics projects by providing scientific leadership and
supports a research program to achieve NASA's strategic science goals. The key questions addressed by the Divisions research
programs include:
- How do galaxies, stars, and planetary systems form and evolve?
- What is the diversity of worlds beyond our solar system?
- Which planets might harbor life?
- What powered the big bang?
- What is Dark Energy?
- What happens to space, time and matter at the edge of a black hole?
- What are the cycles of matter & energy in the evolving universe?
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News Feature
Image Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart
NASA Scientists Identify Smallest Known Black Hole
Using a new technique, two NASA scientists have identified the lightest known black hole. With a mass only about 3.8 times greater than our Sun
and a diameter of only 15 miles, the black hole lies very close to the minimum size predicted for black holes that originate from dying stars.
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Division News
Apr 30 - Julie McEnery and Will Zhang are featured in separate articles in Volume 4, Issue 7 of the Goddard View.
Apr 29 - Neil Gehrels has been elected to membership in the American Academy of
the Arts and Sciences.
Apr 16 - Will Zhang is featured in the Spring
2008 Goddard Tech Trends
newsletter.
Apr 8 - John Baker and Joan Centrella have jointly won this year's Lindsay Award,
Goddard's highest award for scientific achievement in space science.
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Current Missions
Future Missions & Programs
Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST)
GLAST is a superior tool to study how black holes,
notorious for pulling matter in, can accelerate jets of gas outward at fantastic speeds.
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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
JWST is an infrared-optimized space telescope designed
to study the earliest stars and galaxies.
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Beyond Einstein Program
Beyond Einstein consists of several missions:
the x-ray imaging Constellation-X,
the gravitational-wave detector LISA, and
the 3 Einstein probes, one of which is the
dark energy
mission JDEM.
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Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
SOFIA is a 2.5-meter telescope for infrared to far-infrared astrophysics carried
aboard a Boeing 747-SP aircraft. GSFC is responsible for the SAFIRE
instrument.
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