Tag: galaxies

  • Nation & World

    A learner’s guide to the universe

    Harvard’s Avi Loeb is helping prepare the next generation of astronomers with a new textbook, “The First Galaxies in the Universe.”

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Re-creating a slice of the universe

    Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and their colleagues at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies have made it possible to build a universe from scratch.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Stars in the making

    A paper authored by Harvard’s Eli Visbal with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University suggests that it may be far easier than commonly thought to peer deep into the universe’s history and observe the telltale signs of the formation of the first stars and galaxies.

    3 minutes