Tag: Kuiper Belt
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Nation & World
Far-out questions
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb talked about the search for intelligent life in a lecture at the Science Center.
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Nation & World
The building blocks of planets
Harvard’s Matt Holman, a lecturer on astrophysics, and his collaborators at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado are piggybacking their research onto a NASA spaceship that is racing to the farthest edges of the solar system to study objects in the far-flung Kuiper Belt.
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Nation & World
Capturing the stars
Alex Parker, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, sees astronomical data as art as well as science.
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Nation & World
Bright idea
In a new paper, Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Edwin Turner of Princeton University suggest a new technique for finding aliens: Look for their city lights.