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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Press Releases

New Insights on How Spiral Galaxies Get Their Arms
(Tuesday, April 2, 2013)
Meet Research Luminaries at Celebration of Harvard Astronomy
(Friday, March 29, 2013)
Pan-STARRS Finds a "Lost" Supernova
(Sunday, March 10, 2013)
Supermassive Black Hole Spins Super-Fast
(Thursday, February 28, 2013)
Future Evidence for Extraterrestrial Life Might Come from Dying Stars
(Monday, February 25, 2013)
2012 Comet Awards Announced
(Tuesday, January 29, 2013)
Gamma-Ray Pulsar Researchers Wins Top High-Energy Prize
(Thursday, January 24, 2013)
Space Instrument Adds Big Piece to Solar Corona Puzzle
(Wednesday, January 23, 2013)
First "Bone" of the Milky Way Identified
(Wednesday, January 9, 2013)
At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-Sized Planet
(Monday, January 7, 2013)
Call for Submissions to Schramm Science Journalism Award
(Thursday, December 6, 2012)
Galactic Thief Almost Got Away with It
(Monday, October 29, 2012)
Split-Personality Elliptical Galaxy Holds a Hidden Spiral
(Monday, October 22, 2012)
Peering to the Edge of a Black Hole
(Friday, September 28, 2012)
Planets Can Form in the Galactic Center
(Tuesday, September 11, 2012)
Space-Warping White Dwarfs Produce Gravitational Waves
(Wednesday, August 29, 2012)
New Exhibit Connects Science from Here, There, and Everywhere
(Tuesday, August 28, 2012)
Recreating a Slice of the Universe
(Wednesday, August 15, 2012)
Astronomers Release The Largest Ever Three-Dimensional Map of the Sky
(Wednesday, August 8, 2012)
Planetrise: Alien World Looms Large in its Neighbor's Sky
(Thursday, June 21, 2012)
Alien Earths Could Form Earlier than Expected
(Wednesday, June 13, 2012)
Ghostly Gamma-ray Beams Blast from Milky Way's Center
(Wednesday, May 30, 2012)
The Older We Get, the Less We Know (Cosmologically)
(Wednesday, May 23, 2012)
One Supernova Type, Two Different Sources
(Monday, May 7, 2012)
Some Stars Capture Rogue Planets
(Tuesday, April 17, 2012)
Black Holes Grow Big By Eating Stars
(Wednesday, April 4, 2012)
Explosive Stars with Good Table Manners
(Friday, March 23, 2012)
Planet Starship: Runaway Planets Zoom at a Fraction of Light-Speed
(Thursday, March 22, 2012)
Hubble Reveals New Type of Planet
(Tuesday, February 21, 2012)
First Earth-sized Planets Found
(Tuesday, December 20, 2011)
City Lights Could Reveal Extraterrestrial Civilization
(Thursday, November 3, 2011)
Dark Matter Mystery Deepens
(Monday, October 17, 2011)
From Star Wars to Science Fact: Tatooine-like Planet Discovered
(Thursday, September 15, 2011)
Kepler Discovers an Invisible World - Kepler-19c
(Thursday, September 8, 2011)
Our Galaxy Might Hold Thousands of Ticking 'Time Bombs'
(Tuesday, September 6, 2011)
Media Invited to High-Energy Astrophysics Meeting, Sept. 7-10
(Friday, September 2, 2011)
Alien World is Blacker than Coal
(Thursday, August 11, 2011)
Exoplanet Aurora: An Out-of-this-World Sight
(Thursday, July 21, 2011)
Evolved Stars Locked in Fatalistic Dance
(Wednesday, July 13, 2011)
New Supernova Remnant Lights Up
(Thursday, June 9, 2011)
Most Complete 3-D Map of Local Universe Unveiled
(Friday, May 27, 2011)
The Spitzer Photo Atlas of Galactic "Train Wrecks"
(Wednesday, May 25, 2011)
Kepler's Astounding Haul of Multiplanet Systems
(Monday, May 23, 2011)
How to Learn a Star's True Age
(Monday, May 23, 2011)
Far-Future Astronomers Could Still Deduce the Big Bang
(Wednesday, April 13, 2011)
Two Dying Stars Reborn As One
(Saturday, April 9, 2011)
Newly Merged Black Hole Eagerly Shreds Stars
(Friday, April 8, 2011)
Two Dying Stars Reborn as One
(Wednesday, April 6, 2011)
Call for Submissions to Schramm Science Journalism Award
(Tuesday, March 8, 2011)
New Instrument Will Help Confirm Kepler's Planet Finds
(Monday, February 14, 2011)
Tour John Huchra's Universe with WorldWide Telescope
(Saturday, January 29, 2011)
The Best Way to Measure Dark Energy Just Got Better
(Thursday, January 13, 2011)
New Telescope Explores Solar System 'Outback'
(Tuesday, January 11, 2011)
Smithsonian Instrument Views the Sun's Innermost Corona
(Tuesday, January 4, 2011)
Qatar-led International Team Finds Its First Alien World
(Tuesday, December 14, 2010)
The Universe Does Think Small
(Wednesday, December 1, 2010)
Super-Earth Has an Atmosphere, But Is It Sreamy or Gassy?
(Wednesday, December 1, 2010)
Brian Marsden, Eminent Astronomer and Comet/Asteroid Tracker, Dies
(Friday, November 19, 2010)
Astronomers Discover Merging Star Systems that Might Explode
(Wednesday, November 17, 2010)
First Giant Structures of the Universe
(Thursday, October 14, 2010)
Pan-STARRS Discovers Its First Potentially Hazardous Asteroid
(Sunday, October 10, 2010)
Milky Way Sidelined in Galactic Tug of War
(Wednesday, September 29, 2010)
CfA Will Play Major Role in Mission to 'Touch' the Sun
(Tuesday, September 14, 2010)
NASA's Hubble Harvests Distant Solar System Objects
(Monday, September 13, 2010)
Can we Spot Volcanoes on Alien Worlds? Astronomer Say yes
(Tuesday, September 7, 2010)
Aurora Alert - The Sun Is Waking Up!
(Monday, August 2, 2010)
Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions Still a Mystery
(Monday, July 12, 2010)
Pan-STARRS Asteroid Hunter and Sky Surveyor Now Fully Operational
(Thursday, June 17, 2010)
Nearby Black Hole is Feeble and Unpredictable
(Thursday, May 27, 2010)
Nearby Black Hole Is Feeble & Unpredictable
(Tuesday, May 25, 2010)
Astronomers See Historical Supernova From a New Angle
(Wednesday, March 31, 2010)
Astronomers get sharpest view ever of star factories in distant universe
(Monday, March 22, 2010)
First of missing primitive stars discovered
(Friday, March 5, 2010)
Waterworld Discovered Transiting a Nearby Star
(Friday, December 18, 2009)
Avatar's Moon Pandora Could Be Real
(Friday, December 18, 2009)
Close-up Photos of Dying Star Show Our Sun's Fate
(Tuesday, December 15, 2009)
VERITAS Telescopes Help Solve Origin of Cosmic Rays
(Monday, November 2, 2009)
The Universe Comes To The Nation's Capitol
(Sunday, August 2, 2009)
Cosmic Dance Helps Galaxies Lose Weight
(Friday, July 31, 2009)
Peculiar, junior-sized supernova discovered by New York teen
(Wednesday, June 10, 2009)
Rogue Black Holes May Roam the Milky Way
(Wednesday, April 29, 2009)
Farthest Known Object: New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record
(Tuesday, April 28, 2009)
Crossroads: The Future of Human Life in the Universe
(Wednesday, April 15, 2009)
Finding Twin Earths: Harder Than We Thought
(Thursday, March 19, 2009)
Transit Search Finds Super-Neptune
(Wednesday, January 21, 2009)
Baby Jupiters Must Gain Weight Fast
(Monday, January 5, 2009)
Brown Dwarfs Do Form Like Stars
(Wednesday, December 3, 2008)
Solar System's Young Twin Has Two Asteroid Belts
(Monday, October 27, 2008)
Boulder-sized Asteroid Will Burn Up In Eath's Atmosphere Tonight
(Monday, October 6, 2008)
The First Stars
(Monday, August 11, 2008)
Milky Way Mapping Project Finds Surprisingly Slow Stars
(Monday, June 16, 2008)
Famous Supernovae Still Echo Across The Milky Way
(Friday, May 30, 2008)
Solar Eruption Seen in Unprecedented Detail
(Tuesday, May 27, 2008)
New Laser Technology Could Find First Earth-like Planets
(Monday, April 7, 2008)
When Worlds Collide: Have Astronomers Observed the Aftermath of a Distant Planetary Collision?
(Friday, January 11, 2008)
Earth: A Borderline Planet for Life?
(Friday, January 11, 2008)
Jets Are A Real Drag: Matter Jetting From Young Star Spirals Out in "Reverse Whirlpool"
(Wednesday, December 26, 2007)
A Last Look At Comet Holmes
(Monday, November 26, 2007)
White Dwarf "Sibling Rivalry" Explodes into Supernova
(Friday, November 2, 2007)
Massive Black Hole Smashes Record
(Tuesday, October 30, 2007)
Mystery Comet Explodes Into Brightness
(Thursday, October 25, 2007)
Testing Einstein: Is Dark Energy Constant?
(Thursday, October 11, 2007)
Minor Planet No. 100,000 Named for Space Age 50th Anniversary
(Tuesday, October 9, 2007)
The Magellanic Clouds are First Time Visitors
(Monday, September 17, 2007)
Astronomers Spot Brightest Galaxies in the Distant Universe
(Thursday, August 9, 2007)
Two Telescopes Combine to Probe Young Family of Stars
(Wednesday, August 8, 2007)
How To Spot The Speediest Black Holes
(Thursday, May 24, 2007)
First Map of an Extrasolar Planet
(Wednesday, May 9, 2007)
Astronomers Find Supermassive Planet
(Wednesday, May 2, 2007)
Black Holes May Fill The Universe With the Seeds of Life
(Sunday, April 22, 2007)
Cosmic Weight Loss: The Lowest Mass White Dwarf
(Wednesday, April 18, 2007)
CfA Astronomer John Huchra Elected President of AAS
(Tuesday, March 27, 2007)
Hinode's X-Ray Telescope Reveals Sun's Secrets
(Wednesday, March 21, 2007)
Absence of Water in Distant Planet's Atmosphere Surprises Astronomers
(Wednesday, February 21, 2007)
Spinning Black Hole Pushes the Limit
(Monday, November 20, 2006)
Some Super-Earths Form in Super Snowstorms
(Wednesday, October 11, 2006)
Strange New Planet Baffles Astronomers
(Thursday, September 14, 2006)
Astronomers Reveal First Alien I.D. Chart
(Thursday, September 14, 2006)
CfA: Major Exoplanet Briefing 14 Sept. at Smithsonian in Washington, DC
(Wednesday, September 13, 2006)
Massive Planet Found by Astronomers Using Novel Network of Tiny Telescopes
(Sunday, September 10, 2006)
Hourglass Figure Points to Magnetic Field's Role in Star Formation
(Friday, August 11, 2006)
New Picture of Quasar Emerges
(Tuesday, July 25, 2006)
Stellar Explosion Portends Bigger Blast to Come
(Wednesday, July 19, 2006)
Milky Way's Sister Galaxy Shines in New Portrait
(Wednesday, June 14, 2006)
Jupiter's "Big Brother" Has Moon-Forming Dust Disk
(Monday, June 5, 2006)
Super-Earths May Be Three Times More Common Than Jupiters
(Monday, March 13, 2006)
Steven Cranmer Receives 2006 Karen Harvey Prize from AAS Solar Physics
(Wednesday, February 8, 2006)
Neutron Star Swaps Lead to Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
(Tuesday, January 31, 2006)
Most Milky Way Stars Are Single
(Monday, January 30, 2006)
Two Exiled Stars Are Leaving Our Galaxy Forever
(Thursday, January 26, 2006)
New Maser Measurements Trace Detail in Active Galactic Core
(Friday, January 13, 2006)
Growing Supermassive Black Holes from Seeds
(Friday, January 13, 2006)
NASA Spitzer Puts a New Spin on the Helix Nebula
(Monday, January 9, 2006)
Pluto is Colder Than It Should Be
(Tuesday, January 3, 2006)
Galaxy's Neighboring Spiral Arm is Closer Than Thought
(Wednesday, December 28, 2005)
A Holiday Gift from Space: Spitzer Photographs Christmas Tree Cluster
(Thursday, December 22, 2005)
Flashes from the Past: Echoes from Ancient Supernovae
(Wednesday, December 21, 2005)
Scientists Find Possible Birth of Tiniest Known Solar System
(Tuesday, November 29, 2005)
Einstein's Rings in Space
(Friday, November 18, 2005)
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope Harvests Dozens of New Stars
(Tuesday, November 15, 2005)
Cosmic Cloudshine: It's Beauty is More Than Skin Deep
(Thursday, November 3, 2005)
Black Holes Aren't So Black
(Friday, October 7, 2005)
It Takes Three Smithsonian Observatories to Decipher One Mystery Object
(Thursday, October 6, 2005)
Ferreting Out The First Stars
(Wednesday, September 28, 2005)
First Baby Photo of Stellar Twins
(Tuesday, September 20, 2005)
Chandra Finds Long-Sought Link to Origin of Millisecond Pulsars
(Friday, July 22, 2005)
Rain Extinguishes Arizona Fire Near Fred L. Whipple Observatory
(Thursday, July 21, 2005)
Astronomers Debate Whether Oldest Known Dust Disk Will Ever Form Planets
(Monday, July 18, 2005)
Deep Impact Was a Dust-up, Not a Gusher
(Friday, July 8, 2005)
Hibernating Spacecraft Awakens for Comet Impact Mission
(Wednesday, June 29, 2005)
Detour: Planetary Construction Zone Ahead
(Friday, June 24, 2005)
Giovanni Fazio Receives Prestigious NASA Award
(Monday, June 20, 2005)
Observing the Solar System in Submillimeter Wavelengths
(Thursday, June 16, 2005)
SMA Stares Into The Throat of a Cosmic Jet
(Wednesday, June 15, 2005)
SMA Confirms Protoplanetary Systems Are Common in the Galaxy
(Tuesday, June 14, 2005)
The Submillimeter Array: Studying the Past, Pioneering the Future
(Monday, June 13, 2005)
Exploding Star Left No Visible Core
(Monday, June 6, 2005)
Amateur and Professional Astronomers Team to Find a New Planet
(Monday, May 23, 2005)
Robotic Telescope Penetrates Heart of Universe's Most Powerful Explosion
(Wednesday, May 11, 2005)
Faith Vilas to Direct MMT Observatory
(Monday, April 25, 2005)
Physics/Astronomy "Virtual Libraries" Join Forces to Offer Powerful, New Personalized Web and E-mail Alerts
(Sunday, April 17, 2005)
Era of galaxy and black hole growth spurt discovered
(Wednesday, April 6, 2005)
Case of Sedna's MIssing Moon Solved
(Tuesday, April 5, 2005)
Astronomical surprise: Massive old galaxies starve to death in the infant universe
(Thursday, March 10, 2005)
Young Universe Looks Like Vegetable Soup
(Wednesday, March 9, 2005)
Astronomers Measure Slowest Motion Across the Sky
(Thursday, March 3, 2005)
Blast Affected Earth From Halfway Across the Milky Way
(Sunday, February 20, 2005)
First Stellar Outcast Discovered by Astronomers
(Tuesday, February 8, 2005)
Tiny Brown Dwarf�s Disk May Form Miniature Solar System
(Monday, February 7, 2005)
Biggest Stars Produce Strongest Magnets
(Friday, January 28, 2005)
First Mirror Ordered for Giant Magellan Telescope
(Monday, December 13, 2004)
Extrasolar Planets: Alien Treasures in Our Backyard
(Wednesday, December 1, 2004)
Taking a CAT Scan of the Early Universe
(Wednesday, November 10, 2004)
I, Robotic Telescope
(Wednesday, October 20, 2004)
Frequent Starbursts Sterilize Center of Milky Way
(Monday, October 4, 2004)
Fred Whipple, World-renowned Harvard and Smithsonian Astronomer, Dies
(Tuesday, August 31, 2004)
Monster Lies Camouflaged Inside Nebula's Heart
(Friday, June 4, 2004)
NASA Spitzer Telescope Reveals What Edwin Hubble Missed
(Friday, June 4, 2004)
Planetary Formation: Caught In The Act
(Thursday, June 3, 2004)
NASA Spitzer Telescope Reveals Pinwheel Galaxy's Hidden Wonders
(Wednesday, June 2, 2004)
The Sources of Solar Hazards In Interplanetary Space
(Wednesday, June 2, 2004)
Double Stars Emerge as New Heavyweight Champions
(Thursday, May 27, 2004)
Charles Alcock Named Director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
(Tuesday, May 18, 2004)
Scientists See Through the Dark Ages of the Universe
(Tuesday, May 4, 2004)
CFA Scientists Help Test Einstein's Theory on NASA's Gravity Probe B
(Tuesday, April 6, 2004)
Construction of Veritas Telescope Array Begins
(Wednesday, March 17, 2004)
Second Star, Not Planet, Explains "Winking Star"
(Wednesday, February 25, 2004)
Gravitational Lens Reveals Heart of a Distant Galaxy
(Friday, February 13, 2004)
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Photographs a Cosmic Valentine Rose
(Thursday, February 12, 2004)
Top High-Energy Astronomy Prize Awarded to Chandra X-ray Observatory Leaders
(Saturday, January 17, 2004)
Lifeless Suns Dominated The Early Universe
(Wednesday, January 7, 2004)
Young Star Caught Speeding
(Tuesday, January 6, 2004)
Suns Of All Ages Possess Comets, Maybe Planets
(Tuesday, January 6, 2004)
Planetary Survivor Strategy: Outeat, Outweigh, Outlast!
(Monday, December 29, 2003)
First Spectacular Images from SAO's IRAC Camera on Spitzer Space Telescope
(Thursday, December 18, 2003)
SMA Dedication Opens Elusive Frontier For Exploration
(Monday, November 24, 2003)
We're Going to Get Hit Again
(Thursday, October 30, 2003)
Giant Solar Eruption Predicted to Cause Major Geomagnetic Storm
(Tuesday, October 28, 2003)
First Supernovae Quickly Seeded Universe With Stuff of Life
(Thursday, September 18, 2003)
Catch "Mars Fever" at Center for Astrophysics
(Sunday, August 24, 2003)
Asteroid Juno has a "bite" out of it
(Wednesday, August 6, 2003)
A Pancake, Not a Doughnut, Shapes Distant Galactic Center
(Tuesday, July 22, 2003)
2003 Comet Awards Announced
(Monday, July 7, 2003)
State-Of-The-Art Solar Model Fits Massive 2002 Eruption
(Friday, June 27, 2003)
Historic Gamma-Ray Burst Discovery
(Thursday, June 19, 2003)
Hot News for Cold Dark Matter
(Wednesday, June 11, 2003)
Harvard Continues Legacy of Cepheid Discoveries
(Friday, May 30, 2003)
Do We Live In A "Stop And Go" Universe?
(Tuesday, May 27, 2003)
CSI Astronomers Link Gamma-ray Bursts and Supernovae
(Thursday, April 10, 2003)
20th Century Climate Not So Hot
(Tuesday, April 1, 2003)
Cool X-ray Disk Points to a New Type of Black Hole
(Monday, March 24, 2003)
Twin bursts provide several firsts
(Monday, March 10, 2003)
Molecular Cloud has a Heartbeat
(Friday, February 28, 2003)
Missing Mass as Warm Intergalactic Fog
(Thursday, February 20, 2003)
New Moons Found Around Neptune
(Monday, January 13, 2003)
Hypergiant Star Erupts
(Wednesday, January 8, 2003)
Eta Carinae, Awash in X-rays, Might be Two Stars, Not One
(Tuesday, January 7, 2003)
Farthest Known Planet Opens the Door For Finding New Earths
(Monday, January 6, 2003)
X-Ray Astronomy Pioneer, Leon van Speybroeck, Dead at 67
(Thursday, January 2, 2003)
Chandra Reveals Violent Collisions in Gas Around Black Hole
(Wednesday, December 11, 2002)
Groundbreaking Held in Hilo for SMA Operations Facility
(Thursday, October 31, 2002)
Astronomers Find Life on Earth
(Wednesday, October 30, 2002)
Harvard Science Historian Publishes Results of Unprecedented 30-Year Census of Copernican Masterpiece
(Friday, October 18, 2002)
Gianconni Wins Nobel Prize for Research Conducted at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
(Thursday, October 10, 2002)
Margaret Geller Wins la Medaille de l'Adion
(Tuesday, July 23, 2002)
2002 Comet Awards Announced
(Monday, July 1, 2002)
At 95, Comet Man Embarks On Out-Of-This-World Tour
(Sunday, June 30, 2002)
Neither Rome Nor Universe Built in a Day
(Thursday, June 27, 2002)
South Pole Telescope Maps Heart of Milky Way
(Wednesday, June 5, 2002)
Culprit Caught in Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery
(Thursday, May 16, 2002)
Caution: Planetary Traffic Jam Ahead
(Wednesday, April 3, 2002)
See A Comet Tonight
(Sunday, March 24, 2002)
Scientists Predict Calmer Space Weather Ahead
(Tuesday, March 19, 2002)
Even Stars Use Sunscreen
(Thursday, March 7, 2002)
The SubMillimeter Array Opens One of Astronomy's Last Frontiers
(Friday, January 11, 2002)
Structure in Dust Around Vega May Be Signature of Planet
(Wednesday, January 9, 2002)
High-Resolution Images of Binary Star System Support Colliding Winds
(Monday, January 7, 2002)
End of the Universe Frozen in Time
(Thursday, December 13, 2001)
End of the Universe Frozen in Time
(Tuesday, December 11, 2001)
Chandra Digest (Nov 29): Venus in a New Light
(Thursday, November 29, 2001)
Chandra Digest (Oct 22, 2001)
(Monday, October 22, 2001)
Two Amateur Astronomers from the Pacific Rim to Share the 2001 Edgar Wilson Award for the Discovery of Comets
(Thursday, August 30, 2001)
The Cosmos and the Solar System
(Monday, January 29, 2001)
Astronomers resolve visible blast wave from gamma-ray burst
(Tuesday, September 26, 2000)
Cosmic Gas Clouds Yield Puzzling Concentrations of Water
(Wednesday, August 16, 2000)
New Outer Satellite of Jupiter Discovered
(Thursday, July 20, 2000)
Cosmic Gamma-ray Background Radiation May Be Remnant of Large-scale Structure in the Universe
(Wednesday, May 10, 2000)
Like a Human Heart: Betelgeuse's Chromosphere Beats Asymmetrically
(Thursday, January 13, 2000)
Little Giants Create A Big Cosmic Controversy
(Wednesday, January 12, 2000)