Astronomers Use Globular Clusters to Measure Galaxy Evolution
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that globular clusters are often gathered into distinct groupings whose shapes reflect the formation of…
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that globular clusters are often gathered into distinct groupings whose shapes reflect the formation of…
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics used the South Pole Telescope to examine the SZE signatures of galaxy clusters, reporting an unexpectedly weak SZE…
A team of astronomers has discovered that coronal mass ejections accelerate and concentrate nanodust particles in the interplanetary medium, a conclusion derived from STEREO instruments…
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics simulated galaxy collisions under a wide range of conditions in order to investigate the question of where the…
Astronomers have discovered a nearby stellar nursery where quadruplets are being born. More than half of all stars are in multiple systems: binary stars, or…
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the ROSAT X-ray satellite’s all-sky survey, researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics detail a distinct…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics measures the velocity distribution of the gas in a pre-stellar core, revealing the dynamics of collapsing cores…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a new class of binary stars; one star is fully formed while the other is still…
Using the precise data from the Kepler exoplanet mission, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have determined the rotation period measurements for 30 cool…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics report that, when compared with non-interacting field galaxies, the star formation rate does indeed increase in merging spirals,…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals near-infrared observations of the young Milky Way supernova remnant Cassiopeia A and a three-dimensional map of…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics provides new insights from deep VLA data on the potentially recoiling black hole CID-42 in the COSMOS…
In a new study, astronomers from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics found that a small protostellar-like core of only 0.1 solar masses can develop in only…
Using the High-Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), astronomers show that the recipe for Earth also applies to terrestrial exoplanets orbiting distant stars. How do…
Using Kepler data, a team of astronomers has discovered eight new planets orbiting their stars at a distance where liquid water can exist on the…
A newly published study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals why oceans on super-Earths, once established, can last for billions of years. For life…
A team of astronomers has revealed a new set of calculations for catastrophic disruptions of main belt asteroids, finding that for asteroids about one hundred…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have completed a study of active star-forming galaxies, revealing a large deficit in the number of ULXs detected….