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3 stories tagged ‘American Astronomical Society’
First ‘bone’ of the Milky Way identified
Astronomers have identified a new structure in the Milky Way: a long tendril of dust and gas that they are calling a “bone.”
Search for Earth’s twin shows promise
The quest for a twin Earth is heating up. Francois Fressin, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), presented the new analysis of Kepler data that shows that about 17 percent of stars have an Earth-sized planet in an orbit closer than Mercury.
Astronomers honored for excellence, research
Harvard astronomers Robert P. Kirshner and Gaspar Bakos were honored this month (Jan.) by the American Astronomical Society.
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