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The Youngest Stellar Embryos in Massive Clouds
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Stars form as gravity contracts the gas and dust in an interstellar cloud until cores develop that are dense enough to coalesce into stars. A dense core in the earliest phase of this proc...
Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole
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Cambridge, MA - In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). However, that remarkable achievement was jus...
Astro-baking, Astro-music & More: Astronomers Share their Creativity at the Cambridge Science Festival
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Cambridge, MA - Researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian are showing off their creative side at this month's Cambridge Science Festival. The annual event aim...
The Diversity and Variability of Star Formation
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Galaxies in the observable universe show a remarkable diversity in their structure and properties, mostly because of the many different pathways for their stars to form and evolve. The gr...
Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Chandra Operations Control Center Now Available
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The public is invited to tour the Chandra X-Ray Observatory's Operations Control Center (OCC) from the comfort of their own homes. Created by the Advancement and External Affairs Office a...
Dust Grains from Supernovae
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Dust grains in the interstellar medium are responsible for the dramatic shapes darkening the faces of bright nebulae, the Horsehead Nebula for example. The grains absorb ultraviolet and o...
Three Incoming Postdoctoral Researchers Awarded NASA Hubble Fellowships
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The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian will host several NASA Hubble Fellows beginning in the fall of 2021. This year, over 400 applicants applied to the prestigious NASA...
Doctoral Student Ellen Price Awarded 51 Pegasi B Fellowship
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Ellen Price, a doctoral student at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has been awarded the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship from the Heising-Simons Foundation. Price is one of...
Neptune's Trojans
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Trojans are small astronomical bodies that orbit the sun in clusters near a planet, situated at two spots preferred by gravity about sixty degrees ahead of or behind the planet in its orb...