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Earth Is Surrounded by 1,000-Light-Year Wide Bubble – Source of All Nearby, Young Stars (SciTech Daily)

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SciTech Daily covers the Local Bubble and how the expansion speed of the bubble, as well as the past and present trajectories of the young stars forming on its surface, were derived using data obtained by Gaia, a space-based observatory launched by the...

Astronomers Discover Mysterious 500-Light-Year-Wide Void in Space (Newsweek)

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Robert Lea of Newsweek covers the bubble-shaped void in the Milky Way located between the star-forming clusters of gas, or molecular clouds, in the Perseus and Taurus constellations. The 3D molecular cloud maps were created using data visualization...

Astronomers Have Discovered a Gigantic Sphere-Shaped Cavity in Space (SciTech Daily)

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SciTech Daily covers the discovery of a giant, spherical cavity within the Milky Way galaxy and how Alyssa Goodman's work with astronomy visualizations in augmented reality marks a new role in published work. Scientists and the public may interact with...

An Interview with Alyssa Goodman: NASA releases the first high-resolution color images from the largest space telescope ever built (NPR/WBUR)

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New images from the James Webb Space Telescope show the most distant reaches of the universe in the most stunning detail ever captured . Here and Now's Robin Young talks with Harvard University astronomy professor Alyssa Goodman about what the images show...

Alyssa's Life (So Far)

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This "Alyssa's Life" graphic was first created in the Fall of 2019, when Alyssa was asked to give a talk about her career at the Harvard Club of Boston. That talk was entitled "Calypso to Calyspo," a reference to her childhood love of Jacques Cousteau and...

Exploring & Explaining Science, with Pictures

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2022 | An introduction to data visualization concepts, using key concepts from the "10 Questions to Ask when Creating a Visulization" (10QViz.org) website. Presented at "Data Viz for Society." Featured software includes glue (see glueviz.org and...

Astronomy Magazine Talks to the Team Who Discovered the Radcliffe Wave

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Astronomy Magazine talks to the team from Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) about their serendipitous discovery of the Radcliffe Wave, a massive interconnected stream of stellar...

Blog Feature: Dr. Alyssa Goodman talks with the The Harvard College Program in Science and Engineering (PRISE)

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Dr. Alyssa Goodman talks with Felicia Ho, PRISE, Harvard College '23 about Jacques Cousteau, data visualization, climate change, prediction science, and the wide arc of influences that have shaped her multifaceted career as the Robert Wheeler Wilson...

Omni Show Podcast talks with Alyssa Goodman about The Path To Newton

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Listen to The Omni Show's conversation with Dr. Alyssa Goodman to hear how she utilized OmniGraffle to create the brilliantly informative and aesthetically beautiful Path-to Newton project which visualizes the prevailing thought patterns and discoveries...

Professors Offer Insights From Their Fields Amid COVID

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In this time of profound uncertainty, society can be sure of one thing: more uncertainty. The seemingly opaque path forward for us, individually and collectively, was the Gazette’s topic with three Harvard professors, including Robert Wheeler Willson...

Bibliographic References tagged with Astrophysics

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2025. “Once Around the Milky Way: Building Out a 3D Model of the Milky Way That Will Offer a Tour.”

2025. “Visualization for Astronomy Research + Education + Outreach”

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aasviz25_goodman.pdf

2025. “Alyssa Goodman’s Research Agenda, V. 2025 (for Prospective Students at Harvard)”

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2025. “AI in My Astro+Visualization Life Today (SkAI Colloquium)”

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2025. “Understanding the Structure of the Milky Way”

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understandingmilkyway25rw.pdf

2025. “Seeing the Milky Way in 3D (CIERA Colloquium) ”

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2025. “How Do Young Stars Leave Home? And Why Might That Matter?”

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2024. “New Computational Methods in the Milky Way Breakout Session (Ringberg 2024, Presented Jointly by Goodman, Konietzka, Burkert, Zucker)”

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Break-out session	(as listed on the conference schedule, but see slide files (below) for a more clear representation of what was disussed)

Alyssa Goodman	A 3D Milky Way for All: LIVE Astro...

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2024. “Seeing the Milky Way from the Inside Out, in 3D”

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2024. “Feedback on Feedback (Chris Was Right)”