Cambridge, MA White dwarfs are the burned-out cores of stars like our Sun. Astronomers have discovered a pair of white dwarfs spiraling into one another at breakneck speeds. Today, these...

Galaxies frequently collide with one another. Our own Milky Way galaxy, for example, and its nearest giant neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, are heading towards each other at a rate of abou...

Please join us on Wednesday, July 20, at 8:00 pm, for a public lecture by Don Kurtz titled "The Real Music of the Spheres." This multimedia lecture will look at the relationship of musi...

On the Earth, dust particles are everywhere - under beds, on bookshelves, even floating in the air. We take dust for granted. Dust is also common in space, and it is found for example in...

Dr. Gaspar Bakos of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is the 2011 winner of the Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The Muhlmann ...

Supernovae are the explosive deaths of massive stars, cataclysms that disburse into space the chemical elements produced by nuclear reactions inside the progenitor stars. Understanding c...

A new star develops by accreting material from a circumstellar disk; both in turn are embedded in a much larger, more nearly spherical envelope of in-falling dust and gas. The protostar...

CfA scientists and astronomers from other institutions are invited to attend a Community Day to discuss the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Monday, July 11, 8:45 am to 3:00 pm. The primary p...

Our Milky Way galaxy, like other spiral galaxies, has a disk with sweeping arms of stars, gas, and dust that curve around the galaxy like the arms of a huge pinwheel. The Sun, Earth, and...

Cambridge, MA In 1987, light from an exploding star in a neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, reached Earth. Named Supernova 1987A, it was the closest supernova explosion witn...