Using four submillimeter telescopes working simultaneously around the globe, a team of astronomers from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and colleagues made the first detailed measurements…
Scientists at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan & Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered that elliptical galaxy Centaurus A also shows signs of a spiral…
Scientists look at how galaxy collisions can distort the shapes of the galaxies involved, including the shapes and orientations of the regions around their central…
For the first time, international team of astronomers has measured a black hole’s “point of no return,” the closest distance that matter can approach before…
Scientists at CfA have taken an important step in determining the distance of the remnant of Kepler’s supernova, concluding that the remnant distance is probably…
For the first time, a team of astronomers have spotted two new “Hot Jupiter” planets, called Pr0201b and Pr0211b, orbiting sun-like stars in the Beehive…
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe that the recently discovered cloud of hydrogen and helium plunging toward the galactic center represents the shredded…
Alex Parker, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’ Institute for Theory and Computation, incorporated sound and audio to astronomical images to create…
A newly published study details the discovery of glycolaldehyde, a simple sugar, in the material around a newly developing star that is roughly the size…
A recently published study details how scientists used light from an exploding star as a probe to study the gas conditions in the space between…
Discovered last year in system J0651, two white dwarf stars are so close together that they make a complete orbit in less than 13 minutes…
Using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Magellan telescopes in Chile, the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica, and other facilities, a team of astronomers discovered the…
By using Harvard’s Odyssey high-performance supercomputer and new software called Arepo, a team of scientists developed a new computational approach that can accurately follow the…
Using the Infrared Array Camera on the Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers probed the cosmic infrared background, finding structural features produced by the…
Using the infrared spectrometer on the Spitzer Space Telescope to examine the dust absorption of active galactic nuclei, astronomers at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory found that…
In a new study, a team of astronomers set out to evaluate the accuracy of the spectral energy distribution (SED) models, finding that the models…
In a series of seven papers published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement, a NASA/Stanford team reported the astronomical issues involved with the analysis of testing…
While studying TW Hydrae, a relatively young star in the TW Hydrae stellar association, astronomers were able to track an accretion flare spectroscopically, providing direct…
