Insights from MU69’s (Lack of) Craters

May 17, 2019 | AAS NOVA

Months ago, a team of scientists led by Sarah Greenstreet (B612 Asteroid Institute and University of Washington) conducted a study in which they made predictions for the crater count they expected to find on MU69’s surface. Greenstreet and collaborators used observations of Pluto and Charon’s surfaces and models of known Kuiper-belt populations to explore the […]

Read More »

Patient Astronomers Catch Stellar Litterbugs

January 9, 2019 | UW News

Dr. Melissa L. Graham, LSST Research Scientist and DiRAC Fellow, coauthored paper on a large Hubble survey of supernovae “Delayed Circumstellar Interaction for Type Ia SN 2015cp Revealed by an HST Ultraviolet Imaging Survey”. Read UW Press Release Here Read a related story in GeekWire

Read More »