Marcus Alfred

I just published this on Medium. I hope it helps to change things for the better. #HowardUniversity link.medium.com/rmoTiza0Qqb

IceCube ... the other one. #HowardUphysics #HowardUastro

Dark matter update. #HowardUphysics #HowardUastro

This should be awesome! #HowardUphysics #HowardUastro

So many times the views from the @Space_Station cupola give us pause as we absorb the indescribable beauty in front of us. A time lapse of a rich star field cascading down and peeking through the Earth’s translucent upper atmosphere several weeks ago was just such a moment. Soak in the visual beauty but also sit with the moving original score “Satellite Dance” that my friend, Chicago based guitarist, Thomas Clippert composed for this video. His performance is magical. Enjoy. PS: Look for a collection of brighter objects dancing horizontally across the frame near the end of the video. These are satellites catching the sun’s rays as they orbit the Earth.

Physics students often ask how it is that a massless photon can have momentum. Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln shows that the question arises from a misuse of equations and also shows that, when you think about it, it’s not surprising at all. youtu.be/V_fKYrrsVT4

NEWS 🚨: NASA predicts the star T Coronae Borealis will explode into a nova any day now The light will create a "new star" in the night sky 🌃

What were the pivotal events and daily challenges during the 60 years of persistence before @Livermore_Lab’s groundbreaking achievement of fusion ignition? Physicist Mordecai D. Rosen fills in the gaps with technical details, history and his experiences: livermorelab.info/3zLk6J8

Come join @theWOCproject for their graduate school crash course!!!!!

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) graces the dawn sky over @KittPeakNatObs! ☄️ It was captured in the morning hours before sunrise on Saturday 28 September 2024 by Rob Sparks from @NOIRLabastro. noirlab.edu/public/images/… 📷: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks

Congrats to our 2024 Holland Award recipients: Jorge López, University of Texas, El Paso; Leyte Winfield, Spelman College; Nadya Mason, University of Chicago; and Marcel Agüeros, Columbia University. Welcome to the #CottrellScholar community!

For the first time, our @MarsCuriosity rover has found crystals of pure sulfur on the Red Planet—after rolling over a rock and cracking it open: go.nasa.gov/4bLGG1v

Albany, GA has lost a giant. Bernice Johnson Reagon, a founder of The Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock, has died at 81 : NPR npr.org/2024/07/17/121…

@jtabiade @BlackInAstro That's fantastic news! I look forward to meeting you all. Let me know what i can do to help.

Hello folks. I'm Dr. Marcus Alfred. I'm an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy at #HowardUniversity and the HU Associate Director for CRESST2 out of NASA Goddard. #BSWRollCall @BlackInAstro

In honor of #Juneteenth, @Livermore_Lab's African American Body of Laboratory Employees employee resource group hosted a celebration, featuring ice cream and card games. Explore how #LLNL is building an inclusive culture: livermorelab.info/47uOT8B

On April 6, @doctor_talitha delivered the 2024 Einstein Public Lecture at our well-attended Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, hosted at @HowardU. Read about her lecture and the topics discussed here: ow.ly/7V4s50RlgHG

We need your help to @DoNASAScience. All are welcome to search for worlds beyond our solar system, process images of Jupiter and its moons, or share observations of Earth to help validate satellite data. Dive into a subject this #CitSciMonth: science.nasa.gov/citizen-science

This is terrible. My heart goes out to his family and friends.

Again leading up to the Red Summer in the United States of America.

How do you decide? Here is a good metric. Would you stay here? Would you put your grandmother or mother here? Let me go work on this presentation and shut my mouth. 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾