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MOXIE produces oxygen from Mars atmosphere
MOXIE's historic mission to create oxygen from carbon dioxide has succeeded.

Telescopes united in unprecedented observations of famous black hole
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration scientists release multi-wavelength images showing M87 across the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

Astronomers image magnetic fields at the edge of M87’s black hole
New image of M87 reveals how it looks in polarized light.

Monitoring Arctic sea ice
A network of precision buoys is now tracking sea ice drift, deformation, and fracturing in the Beaufort Sea.

Dhiman Mondal hired as Research Scientist
Mondal has been working as a postdoctoral researcher since 2018.

Paul B. Sebring, first Haystack Observatory director, dies at 102
Founded the Northeast Radio Observatory Corporation (NEROC) and led Haystack Observatory from 1970–1980.

Haystack climate change research: how fast are icebergs melting?
Iceberg melt rates are calculated with precision GPS and improved geometry measurements.

Akiyama: now under “A” in Encyclopedia Britannica
The Encyclopedia Britannica places Akiyama on their list of important young scientists.

Former REU student co-authors research in Journal of Geophysical Research
Goncharenko, Tamburri, et al. published in JGR–Space Physics

EHT awarded Royal Astronomical Society 2021 Group Achievement Award
Haystack among EHT institutions awarded Royal Astronomical Society 2021 Group Achievement Award for black hole imaging

NEROC 2020: 5th Annual, 1st Virtual
This year's NEROC symposium consisted of a series of Fireside Chats and keynote talks.

Black hole shadow wobbling
Recent analysis of past observations reveal a persistence of and variation in the orientation of the black hole's shadow over several years.

Measuring Antarctic ice shelf stability
Grant awarded for monitoring Antarctic ice shelf stability using seismology, geodesy, and ice penetrators.

Haystack joins MIT-led team to forecast space weather
A team of scientists from across MIT, with partner institutions, will be improving the modeling of space weather storms for better forecasting.