Tag: Center for Astrophysics
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Nobel-winning physicist, artist illustrate universe’s ‘warped side’
New book seeks to demystify complex science from black holes to time travel
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Finding explanation for Milky Way’s warp
The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian’s results bolster hypothesis of how galaxy evolved.
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After capturing image of black hole, what’s next?
New Center for Astrophysics mission aims for closer look at photon rings and insight into nature of space and time.
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New director plots fresh course for the CfA
As the first woman director of the Center for Astrophysics, Lisa Kewley talks about strategies for a new era in astronomy, growing up with a love for space, and challenges for women in the field.
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Who Cares? Scotland does — and so does Harvard
Four students from Scotland come to Harvard’s summer Secondary School Program.
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Telescope to help tell the story of the universe
Harvard astrophysicist details the most ambitious space probe NASA ever built.
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Who wants ice cream? At this point, pretty much everyone
Despite downpour, the Department of Astronomy ice cream social event draws a crowd.
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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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Harvard partners in national alliance to diversify STEM postdocs and faculty
Harvard is a partner in an effort to increase the number of postdoctoral researchers and faculty in STEM fields who come from historically underrepresented minority groups.
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In a photo of a black hole, a possible key to mysteries
So little is known about black holes and the image hints at a path to a higher-resolution image and more and better data.
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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.”
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Before the Big Bang
Harvard researchers are proposing using a “primordial standard clock” as a probe of the primordial universe. The team laid out a method that may be used to falsify the inflationary theory experimentally.
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A black hole, revealed
Researchers at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole, which captures what EHT Director Sheperd Doeleman called “a one-way door from our universe.”
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First glimpse of a kilonova, and Harvard was there
Marking the beginning of a new era in astrophysics, scientists for the first time have detected gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation, or light, from the same event. Harvard researchers were pivotal in the work.
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Testing the test questions
A group of researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has found a way for schools, professors, textbook publishers, and educational researchers to check the quality of their test questions that turns out to be both fast and cheap. It invokes the power of crowdsourcing.
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Planets form in cosmic maelstrom
At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form a planet. New research by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets still can form in this cosmic maelstrom.
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Astral feast
Supermassive black holes snack infrequently, making the recent discovery of a black hole in the act of feeding all the more interesting to astronomers.
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Magazine recognizes Justin Kasper
Popular Science magazine has selected Center for Astrophysics astronomer Justin Kasper as one of this year’s “Brilliant Ten” scientists.
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‘It is within our grasp’
Answers to questions about life in the universe is “within our grasp,” astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger said at an Origins of Life Initiative forum.
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Harnessing fun for serious science
Researchers from chemistry, computer science, and astronomy are learning a trick or two from video games and investigating a new kind of computing based on graphics processing units.