With glue, users can create a variety of data displays (including scatter plots, histograms, tables and 2D and 3D images). glue is focused on the brushing and linking paradigm, where sele...

About eighty-five percent of the matter in the cosmos emits neither light nor any other known kind of radiation as far as is known, and hence is called dark matter. One of its other nota...

Understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies is difficult because so many different physical processes besides just gravity are involved, including processes associated with star...

Cambridge, MA - They may be the youngest astronomers to make a discovery yet. This week, 16-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright have co-authored a peer-reviewed paper i...

The Pleiades star cluster, a brilliant collection of several hundred stars visible in the winter sky near the constellation of Orion, has been admired by people for thousands of years; it...

Cambridge, MA - Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have detected the first Jupiter-like planet without clouds or haze in its observable atmosphere. The...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is a long-running series of sky surveys, now focused on optical and infrared spectroscopy of the full sky. Harvard and Smithsonian are both full institutional...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) consortium will conduct a massive redshift survey to map the large-scale structure of the Universe over one-third of the sky and 11 billion...

AbacusSummit was performed with the Abacus code on the Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) using time from the ALCC program.  AbacusSummit prov...

JADES is a collaboration of the JWST Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument teams and will comprise about 800 hours of observing time, with full...