In fewer than ten million years the material in the circumstellar disk around a young star will either be accreted on to its star, dispersedinto the interstellar medium, or converted into...

Massive black holes -- ones that contain millions of solar masses of material -- or even supermassive black holes with billions of solar masses, are thought to reside at the centers of mo...

One new star is born somewhere in our Milky Way galaxy per year, on average, according to the current estimates. The stellar nurseries are located in giant clouds of molecular gas and dus...

Dr. Anna Frebel of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has been awarded the 2009 Young Astronomer Award (Ludwig-Biermann Preis) of the German Astronomical Society. Dr. Frebel...

Astronomers, like other research scholars, specialize in the investigation of objects whose importance they recognize. How, then, are new kinds of objects discovered, ones that were prev...

DOGs ("Dust-Obscured Galaxies") are a newly discovered type of galaxy that is extremely luminous but also particularly heavily obscured by dust. Astronomers wonder if they might be a sub...

Cambridge, MA On Sunday, June 21, 2009, a new exhibit developed by educators and scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) will open at the Boston Museum of Sci...

Dr. Christine Jones of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has been awarded the 2009 Marcel Grossman Award for her fundamental contributions to the X-ray studies of galaxies a...

The Orion Nebula, one of the most famous sights in the night sky, contains several clusters of hot young stars. In fact, the nebula's bright glow comes from gas and dust that are illumin...

Pasadena, CA Astronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA) clearly reveals the presence of a rotating molecular di...