The VERITAS array has confirmed the detection of gamma rays from the vicinity of a…
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The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is one of the world’s leading astronomical research institutions, combining the resources of Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the CfA conducts cutting-edge research across a broad range of topics—from black holes, exoplanets, and dark matter to the origins of the universe. It operates powerful observatories, develops space missions, and plays a key role in global collaborations like the Event Horizon Telescope. Follow the latest discoveries, technological innovations, and cosmic insights emerging from this hub of astrophysical exploration.
Galaxy-galaxy interactions have long been known to influence galaxy evolution. They are commonplace events, and…
A new study provides new clues indicating that an exoplanet – that is, a planet…
A binary star system is one that contains a pair of stars orbiting each other.…
Astronomical masers (the radio wavelength analogs of lasers) were first identified in space over fifty…
After a nearly twenty-year-long game of cosmic hide-and-seek, astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory have…
To study the most extreme objects in the Universe, astronomers sometimes have to go to…
Astronomers have proposed a new model for the invisible material that makes up most of…
The center of our Milky Way galaxy is about twenty-five thousand light-years from Earth, in…
The K2 Mission, an extension of the immensely successful NASA Kepler mission to search for…
Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen, and is a…
Astronomers have detected massive clusters of galaxies dating from as early as only about three…
You don’t get to swim in the sun’s atmosphere unless you can prove you belong…
The nuclei of most galaxies host supermassive black holes with millions or even billions of…
Astronomers studying the motions of galaxies and the character of the cosmic microwave background radiation…
A “core-collapse” supernova occurs when the iron core of a massive star collapses under the…
The discovery of an exoplanet has most often resulted from the monitoring of a star’s…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is undergoing final preparations in Florida for its April…