Tag: Jonathan McDowell

  • Science & Tech

    Getting the asteroid before it gets us

    Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics explains the science and objectives guiding the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test.

    Rendering of collision of the DART spacecraft and the asteroid Dimorphos.
  • Science & Tech

    Eyes on Orion

    Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientist Jonathan McDowell answers questions on the Orion test run and prospects for getting to Mars.

  • Science & Tech

    When worlds collide

    Astronomers believe the a mega-merger in the galaxy known as Arp 220 triggered the formation of huge numbers of new stars, sent shock waves rumbling through intergalactic space, and could…