CfA Scientists Awarded Prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowships
The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian will host two NASA Hubble Fellows beginning in the fall of 2022. Two outgoing Center for Astrophysics (CfA) scientists have also be...
Scientific Discovery Gets Kind of Government Seal of Approval
As far as memos go, this one may go down as one of the most consequential of Amir Siraj's career.
U.S. Space Command released a communication last month that confirmed earlier findings f...
Connecting the Dots: From Black Hole Theory to Actual Images
Two-and-a-half trillion pages of printed text — that's how much data researchers must gather up to catch even a mere glimpse of a distant black hole. The pages are the equivalent of five ...
Bringing Black Holes to Light
What could ducks splashing in a pond, the Pharrell Williams song "Happy" and a planet-spanning telescope possibly have to do with each other?
Astronomers Reveal First Image of the Black Hole at the Heart of Our Galaxy
Washington, D.C. – Astronomers unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy in simultaneous press conferences around the world today.
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Astronomers to Announce Groundbreaking Result on the Center of Our Galaxy at Press Conference
WHAT: The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) will host a press conference to announce a groundbreaking Milky Way galaxy discovery from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).
WHEN: 9 a....
Michael Foley Elected First Grad Student on AAS Education Committee
Astrophysics graduate student Michael Foley has been elected to the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Education Committee, becoming the first graduate student to serve on the committee ...
Matthew Payne Named Director of the Minor Planet Center
The Small Bodies Node (SBN) of NASA's Planetary Data System has named Matthew Payne director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC). Payne is currently acting director of the MPC and a scientis...