Tag: Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
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Celebrating Mass STEM Week with astrophysics and AI
“Astronomy Is for All of Us: Celebrating Women Astrophysicists and the History of Cosmic Discovery” recognized Mass STEM week, a statewide effort to boost high schoolers’ interest in and awareness of science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Can space dust slow global warming?
A new study has found that dust launched from the moon’s surface or from a space station positioned between Earth and the sun could reduce enough solar radiation to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
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Doomed exoplanet spiraling toward obliteration
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet whose orbit is decaying around an evolved, or older, host star.
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Might be a balmy paradise. Might be a face-melting wasteland.
Harvard and MIT researchers warn that opacity models need to be improved to accurately interpret data from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Astronomers see carbon dioxide on planet outside solar system for first time
Discovery powered by James Webb Space Telescope could yield new clues on composition, formation of planets outside solar system.
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‘The dawn of a new era in astronomy’
Harvard scientists discuss what the quest to image black holes could tell us about our universe.
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Scientists have spotted farthest galaxy on record
A galaxy, some 13.5 billion light-years away, is now considered the most distant astronomical object ever spotted, leaving scientists to speculate exactly what the galaxy is.
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A glimpse into the universe’s first light
Using one of the world’s largest supercomputers, high-resolution simulations were created that show 1 million galaxies forming some 13 billion years ago.
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Turning photons into pirouettes
Astrophysics student Xiaohan Wu used dance to explain the physics behind photons in the early universe, winning the “Dance Your Ph.D.” international competition.
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How a bubble gives birth to young stars
Scientists have shown how a chain of events led to the creation of the vast bubble that is responsible for the formation of all young stars within 500 light-years of the sun and Earth.
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Touching the sun
An instrument made by scientists and engineers at the Center for Astrophysics has helped verify that — for the first time in history — a spacecraft has entered the corona of the sun.
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Tantalizing transit
Signs of a planet transiting a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy may have been detected for the first time.
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Head in the stars, hands in the dirt
The garden at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian provides nutrition and a visual feast that is open to all.
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Charting the universe
Nearly 40 years after creating the first, iconic map of the universe, researchers aim for the largest map ever.
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Reaching for the stars
Using robotic telescopes and other engaging astronomy activities, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian hope to spark interest in the sciences.
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Image of black hole’s magnetic fields captured for first time
Images released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration reveal how the black hole, some 55 million light-years away, appears in polarized light.
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Black hole on the move
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have detected a moving supermassive black hole.
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All the ingredients for an expert space baker
Claire Lamman doubles as an astronomy graduate student at Harvard and an expert space baker.
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High schoolers discover four exoplanets through Harvard & Smithsonian mentorship program
At the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian mentorship program, two students discovered four new exoplanets about 200-light-years away from Earth.
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Cloudless, Jupiter-like planet discovered
The first Jupiter-like planet without clouds has been detected by astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Unlike our Jupiter, which takes nearly 12 years to orbit the sun, WASP-62b completes a rotation in just four-and-a-half days.
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Astrochemist brings search for extraterrestrial life to Center for Astrophysics
Clara Sousa-Silva, whose expertise in phosphine as a biosignature gas was key to a recent analysis that may have detected life in the clouds of Venus, has moved to the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian for the final two years of her fellowship. She discusses the finding and the broader topic of the…
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Far-out findings from the cosmos
CfA astronomers theorize that the solar system originally had two suns as they further research a sneezing star and ‘Oumuamua.
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Translating black holes to the public — in 25 languages
Harvard’s educational mission is bringing the universe’s strangest creation to the world, as short videos about black holes have been seen by millions.