Tag: Star

  • Science & Tech

    How will the world end? Possibly with a belch, not a whimper.

    Scientists say it’s a preview of Earth’s fate in 5 billion years.

    6 minutes
    Illustration of star engulfing planet.
  • Campus & Community

    Rewarding remarkable studies

    The annual awards created through a gift from James A. Star ’83 fund research unlikely to be funded through other programs — risky studies with the potential to contribute to radical new understandings of our world.

    13 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Inquiring minds rewarded

    Ideas in language, health, and astronomy are winners in this year’s Star Family Challenge, a grant that funds high-risk, high-reward research.

    8 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Funding the future

    The Star Family Challenge makes grants every year to high-risk, high-reward research efforts that might not receive funding through other programs. This year’s recipients are Edo Berger, Katia Bertoldi, Edward Glaeser, Talia Konkle, and Bence Ölveczky.

    9 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Destination: Nearest star

    Harvard Astronomy Department chair Abraham Loeb played an important role in drafting initial plans announced Tuesday for a proposed trip to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri. Loeb talked about the plan and its biggest challenges.

    9 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    When old stars slow down

    New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that some old stars might be held up by their rapid spins, and when they slow down, they explode as supernovae. Thousands of these “time bombs” could be scattered throughout our Galaxy.

    4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    A supernova that’s super different

    A researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has uncovered a new way that stars end their lives, in a bright, fast explosion that appears different from the known characteristics of the stellar cataclysms called supernovas.

    3 minutes