Cambridge, MA A unique collaboration created by Harvard's Initiative for Innovative Computing (IIC) has brought together astronomers, medical imaging specialists, and software engineers ...

Cambridge, MA John P. Huchra of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has been elected the next President of the American Astronomical Society. "I'm honored and excited t...

Cambridge, MA Even though the sun is the closest star to Earth and has been studied for hundreds of years, it still holds surprises. The recently launched Hinode spacecraft is one of the...

Globular clusters are roughly spherical ensembles of stars, as many as a million stars in some cases, that are gravitationally bound together in groups whose diameters can be as small as ...

Quasars are galaxies with massive black holes at their cores around which vast amounts of energy are being radiated -- quasars are among the most powerful energy sources known. Streaming ...

When a supernova explodes, its blast sweeps up surrounding gas with a powerful shock wave. A typical supernova shock has more energy in the motions of its material than the Sun will emit ...

The 212 currently identified extrasolar planets (that is, planets around stars other than our Sun) have known masses and orbits, but they are otherwise rather mysterious objects. For exam...

Cambridge, MA Note to editors: This release was issued jointly with the Space Telescope Science Institute. Twenty years ago, astronomers witnessed one of the brightest stellar explosions...

Cambridge, MA A team of astronomers led by Carl Grillmair (Spitzer Science Center) and David Charbonneau (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) announced today that they have dire...

Oxygen is obviously one of the gases we care most about here on Earth, and so it is not surprising that astronomers have been trying for over fifty years to determine its abundance in the...