The young star Eta Carinae shines prominently in the skies of the southern hemisphere. Although…
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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.
The single most important puzzle in today’s cosmology (the study of the universe as a…
One year ago this week astronomers discovered an unusual object moving through space not too…
Most galaxies host a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at their nucleus (a supermassive black hole…
Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way…
Ultra-faint, dwarf galaxies are the smallest, most dark matter dominated, and least chemically enriched stellar…
NASA has awarded a contract extension to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts,…
There are about 4433 exoplanets in the latest catalogs. Their radii have generally been measured…
Astronomers from Durham University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have found evidence that…
The North Star, Polaris, is a Cepheid variable: one whose mass, age and physical conditions…
GMTO Corporation (GMTO) today announced the start of hard rock excavation for the Giant Magellan…
About twenty-five percent of young stars in our galaxy form in clustered environments, and stars…
GW170817 is the name given to a gravitational wave signal seen by the LIGO and…
When NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launches into space from the Kennedy Space Center, it will…
Astronomers in the past decade have detected thousands of galaxies dating from epochs only a…
In the blink of an eye, a massive star more than 2 billion light-years away…
Disc galaxies like our own Milky Way, characterized by a flattened disc of stars and…
The path of light from a star as it passes by a massive body, like…