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2017 Eclipse at Georgia Tech

Sparked by a professor’s interest, 55 students from the School of Physics will travel to Illinois to enter the path of totality for the April 8 total solar eclipse.  

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April is Earth Month with a full calendar of events open to the campus community.

John Wise, left, speaks at the 2024 Asimov Debate

Wise, a professor in the School of Physics and director of the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, spoke to how the James Webb Space Telescope has impacted astrophysics and our understanding of the formation of galaxies and black holes — a research area he specializes in at Georgia Tech.

The LASSIE Project’s robot, dubbed Spirit, can “feel” and interpret surface force responses via leg-terrain interactions, assisting planetary scientists with data collection at Oregon’s Mount Hood, a lunar-analog site. (Justin Durner/LASSIE Project)

Scientists at Georgia Tech have teamed up with the University of Southern California (USC), University of Pennsylvania, Texas A&M, Oregon State, Temple University, and NASA Johnson Space Center to teach dog-like robots to navigate craters of the Moon and other challenging planetary surfaces in research funded by NASA.

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Georgia Tech is supporting career growth for its research faculty, who do critical work at the heart of the research enterprise.

Georgia Tech students witness the 2017 total solar eclipse on campus.

While outside of the path of totality, the Georgia Tech community can still take part in the historic April total solar eclipse.