The H3 Stellar Spectroscopic Survey
Science Goals
The H3 Survey will unravel the assembly history of the Galaxy by addressing the following key science questions:
Physics of the Primordial Universe
Harvard-Smithsonian Science Research Mentoring Program (SRMP)
Astrophysicist Sheperd Doeleman Awarded National Academy of Sciences Henry Draper Medal
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Sheperd (Shep) Doeleman, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has been named the recipient of the National Academy of Sciences' 2021 Henry Draper ...
Quasars in the Early Universe
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Quasars are perhaps the best-known kinds of active galactic nuclei (AGN), galaxies whose central supermassive black holes are luminous, sometimes brighter than the rest of the galaxy. In ...
Coronal Holes During the Solar Maximum
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Sunspots were first seen by Galileo, and in the eighteenth century Rudolf Wolf concluded from his study of previous observations that there was a roughly eleven-year solar cycle of activi...
The Uncertainties in Measuring Cosmic Expansion
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Ninety years after Edwin Hubble discovered the systematic motions of galaxies and George Lemaitre explained them as cosmic expansion from a point using Einstein’s equations of relativity,...
Active Nuclei in Luminous Galaxies
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The most luminous galaxies in the universe can be over a thousand times brighter than our Milky Way. They are not particularly bright in the optical, however, because most of their radiat...
A Rosetta Stone for Planet Formation
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Planets are formed from the disk of gas and dust around a star, but the mechanisms for doing so are imperfectly understood. Gas is the key driver in the dynamical evolution of plane...
Artificial Intelligence Classifies Supernova Explosions with Unprecedented Accuracy
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Artificial intelligence is classifying real supernova explosions without the traditional use of spectra, thanks to a team of astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smi...