Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is a research institute which carries out a broad program of research in astronomy, astrophysics, earth and space sciences, and science education

A problem with the growing interest in extractable resources on the moon: There aren’t enough of them to go around

NASA’s Fermi Telescope Poised to Pin Down Gravitational Wave Sources

On Sept. 14, waves of energy traveling for more than a billion years gently rattled space-time in the vicinity of Earth. The disturbance, produced by a pair of merging black holes, was captured by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) facilities in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana. This event marked the first-ever detection of gravitational waves

NASA’s Fermi Telescope Poised to Pin Down Gravitational Wave Sources

New Desktop Application Has Potential to Increase Asteroid Detection, Now Available to Public

A software application based on an algorithm created by a NASA challenge has the potential to increase the number of new asteroid discoveries by amateur astronomers. Analysis of images taken of our solar system’s main belt asteroids between Mars and Jupiter using the algorithm showed a 15 percent increase in positive identification of new asteroids.

New Desktop Application Has Potential to Increase Asteroid Detection, Now Available to Public

A New Approach to SETI: Targeting Alien Polluters

Humanity is on the threshold of being able to detect signs of alien life on other worlds. By studying exoplanet atmospheres, we can look for gases like oxygen and methane that only coexist if replenished by life. But those gases come from simple life forms like microbes. What about advanced civilizations? Would they leave any

A New Approach to SETI: Targeting Alien Polluters

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Underrepresented Astrophysicists Awarded Black Hole Physics Internships
on July 2, 2021 at 3:26 pm
The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has welcomed two new summer interns thanks to a partnership between the National Society of ...
Earth-Sized Planets May Be Hiding in Space in 'Major' Exoplanet Finding
on July 2, 2021 at 6:33 am
James Kirk, an astronomer not involved in the study, told Newsweek the study could have a "profound" effect on our understanding of how many Earth-sized planets are out there in the universe.
Cosmic hand hitting a wall
on June 24, 2021 at 9:44 am
The inner edge of this cloud forms a gas wall located about 35 light-years from the center of the explosion. To track the motion the team used Chandra data from 2004, 2008, and then a combined ...
Cosmic hand hitting a wall
on June 23, 2021 at 5:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Summary: Motions of a remarkable cosmic structure have been measured for the first time, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Mystery solved: Dust cloud led to Betelgeuse's 'Great Dimming'
on June 16, 2021 at 10:04 am
Dupree, an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and a co-author on the new paper, captured signs of dense, heated material moving through the star's atmosphere in the ...

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Mystery solved: Dust cloud led to Betelgeuse's 'Great Dimming' - EurekAlert
June 16, 2021
New project aims to digitize astrophysical literature - EurekAlert
June 2, 2021
Underrepresented Astrophysicists Awarded Black Hole Physics Internships - Mirage News
July 2, 2021
AAS Names New NASA-Affiliated Fellows, Legacy Fellows - NASA
June 4, 2021
Harvard professor Eugene Demler wins Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics - EurekAlert
June 16, 2021

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Underrepresented Astrophysicists Awarded Black Hole Physics Internships
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The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has welcomed two new summer interns thanks to a partnership between the National Society of ...
The sky is full of potential UFOs—here’s why
on July 2, 2021 at 9:58 am
Even with all of our satellites and radar systems, only a small percentage of the sky is actually being watched at any given moment.
Earth-Sized Planets May Be Hiding in Space in 'Major' Exoplanet Finding
on July 2, 2021 at 6:33 am
James Kirk, an astronomer not involved in the study, told Newsweek the study could have a "profound" effect on our understanding of how many Earth-sized planets are out there in the universe.
Winner Takes All: Galaxies Headed for Collision on Intergalactic “Road of Matter”
on July 1, 2021 at 8:05 pm
An international group of astronomers has created images with never-before-seen detail of a galaxy cluster with a black hole at its center, traveling at high speed along an intergalactic ‘road of ...
Russia says SpaceX Starlink satellite and space junk may narrowly miss Progress cargo ship in orbit
on June 30, 2021 at 10:04 am
Russia's Progress 78 cargo ship, which launched towar Tuesday (June 29), will get dangerously close to one of SpaceX's Starlink satellites and a Falcon 9 rocket fragment, according to a statement from ...