Scientists Get Front-Row Seats to Star's Death by Spaghettification
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The Spin of the Supermassive Black Hole in our Galaxy
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Once a black hole forms, its intense gravitational field produces a surface beyond which even light cannot escape, and it appears black to outsiders. All the details of the complex ...
Growing up Stardust: Scientists Discover That Stars and Planets May Be Siblings
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Cambridge, MA - An international team of scientists has discovered planet formation in a star system younger than 500,000 years old. The find, published today in Nature, is a marked depar...
Dust in the Galaxy
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Dust is found scattered throughout space. It is composed of fine particles made of silicates, like sand on Earth, or of carbon, and these are often blended with other elements. &nbs...
Nanojets in the Solar Corona
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The solar corona, the hot outer layer of the Sun, has a temperature of over a million degrees Kelvin and powers a wind of charged particles, some of which bombard the Earth producing auro...
M87*'s Shadow Is Wobbling and Has Been for a While
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Cambridge, MA - Analysis of previously unpublished data from observations of M87* between 2009 and 2013 by scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has revealed that the crescent s...
Could Life Exist Deep Underground on Mars?
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Cambridge, MA - Recent science missions and results are bringing the search for life closer to home, and scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) and th...
How Planetary Nebulae Get Their Shapes
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About seven and one-half billion years from now our sun will have converted most of its hydrogen fuel into helium through fusion, and then burned most of that helium into carbon and oxyge...
Astronomers Solve Mystery of How Planetary Nebulae Are Shaped
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Cambridge, MA - Following extensive observations of stellar winds around cool evolved stars scientists have figured out how planetary nebulae get their mesmerizing shapes. The findings, p...
Major NSF Grant Accelerates Development for One of the World's Most Powerful Telescopes
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The GMTO Corporation has received a $17.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to accelerate the prototyping and testing of some of the most powerful optical and infra...