Tag: Astrophysical Journal

  • Nation & World

    The giant in our stars

    Astronomers at Harvard have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped gaseous structure — the largest ever seen in our galaxy — and dubbed it the “Radcliffe Wave.”

    7 minutes
    Illustration of stars in space.
  • Nation & World

    Discovering ‘star nurseries’

    In a quest to find mismatched star pairs known as extreme mass-ratio binaries, Harvard astronomers have discovered a new class of binary stars, in which one star is fully formed while the other is still in its infancy. The discovery of these stellar twins could provide invaluable insight into the formation and evolution of massive…

    3 minutes