Submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) are a class of the most luminous, distant, and rapidly star-forming galaxies known and can shine brighter than a trillion Suns (about one hundred times more ...

Seven undergraduates have been awarded summer internships at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) through the Latino Initiative Program.  

The triggering of star formation, and also its quenching, is regulated by young massive stars in galaxies which inject energy and momentum into the interstellar medium. Feedback from the ...

Cambridge, MA - When Betelgeuse, a bright orange star in the constellation of Orion, lost more than two-thirds of its brightness in late 2019 and early 2020, astronomers were puzzled. W...

At the center of our Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole (SMBH) called Sagittarius A* (SgrA*). Supermassive black holes reside at the centers of most galaxies, and when they actively...

Forty years ago astronomers using sensitive new imaging techniques discovered a class of large, faint galaxies they named low surface brightness galaxies. Giant low surface brightness gal...

The prospects for life around low-mass, cool M-type stars have been extensively discussed because these stars are the most common ones in the galaxy, and they frequently host Earth-sized ...

Astrophysics senior Alessandra Canta is one of three Harvard students selected by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to receive the 2021 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize. The winners we...

Star-forming regions in the Galaxy are distributed in a complex web of filaments. Clusters of stars are born within the densest parts of these structures, but soon after the stars form th...

Cambridge, MA - A NASA-Smithsonian satellite instrument that will measure air pollution over North America reached another key milestone this week.