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Now in its 102nd season, the Watson Lecture Series aims to foster a community of curiosity with a diverse lineup of speakers and engaging activities.

Artist's concept of the NEOWISE spacecraft in space.

NEOWISE's enduring infrared eyes, which faithfully scanned the entire sky a whopping 23 times and observed more than 190,000 solar system objects, have closed for good.

Artwork of a dark matter flying ahead of normal matter in galaxy cluster collision.

The research provides a unique look at how this matter decoupling proceeds.

Two recent PhD graduates, Keefe Mitman and Peiwei Chen, delivered Everhart Lectures about their research on gravitational memory and evolutionary innovations in genome defense, respectively.

This illustration depicts a binary star system consisting of a dense neutron star and a normal Sun-like star (upper left).

New observations reveal neutron stars paired with stars like our Sun. Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3 Slide 4 Slide 5 Autoplay Carousel

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