Scattered Light Gaps in Protoplanetary Disks Don’t Always Signal Planets
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that a gap in the dusty disk circling a star could be a sort of cosmic…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that a gap in the dusty disk circling a star could be a sort of cosmic…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have determined that the X-ray emission from massive stars arises from shocks. Massive young stars are known to…
Using the repurposed Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered evidence of a tiny, rocky object being torn apart as it spirals around a white dwarf…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics studying the birth of solar systems have found thirteen stars with detectable disks, none of which is as…
In a new study, scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveal that between about 0.3 and 3% of the moderately bright NEOs are actually…
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals evidence that the cluster environment plays an important role in determining the nature of accretion…
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have identified the orbiting companions to five-millisecond pulsars in the globular…
Astronomers believe that radio waves coming from supersonic stars will help them find stars that no one has seen before. The center of our Milky…
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have extrapolated the character of the current galaxies in the Local Group back to the cosmic Epoch of…
New research form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that shocks in a distant gamma-ray burst originated in a supernova. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)–flashes of high-energy…
Astronomers reach an important milestone in the study of cluster mergers, showing that member galaxies are still gas-rich and thus can form stars and stimulate…
Researchers detail the discovery of a new species of flea beetle, Burumoseria yuae. Nausea, vomiting, and weakness are but a few of the symptoms one…
This new image from the 6.5 meter Magellan telescope and the Magellan Infrared Spectrograph reveal the deepest look yet into a region of Orion’s belt…
Using the Large Millimeter Telescope in its first stages of operation, astronomers study the gas and dust properties of luminous galaxies in the early stages…
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that if life can travel between the stars (in a process called panspermia), it would…
A new analysis of textured dust storms from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics examines data over eight years of MGS observations and finds that such…
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has examined Kepler observations for exoplanet transits around lower mass M-dwarf stars, revealing that the nearest…
Using the new spectrometer on the Gemini telescope to study a star slightly larger than the Sun, astronomers found that the debris ring is confined…