Heather Williams to Serve as SAO's First Chief Operating Officer
Heather Williams will become the first Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), beginning July 12, 2023.
The Case of the Missing Jupiters: Gas Giant Planets are a No-Show around Small Red Stars
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Cambridge, Mass. – Astronomers have revealed that the smallest and most common kinds of stars in the universe, called red dwarfs, very rarely host big, Jupiter-like planets. This absence ...
Astronomers Find Potentially Volcano-Covered Earth-Size World
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Cambridge, MA--Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet, a world beyond the solar system, that may be carpeted with volcanoes and could potentially support life. Called LP 791-...
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AstroAI strives to bring experts in artificial intelligence together with scientists to tackle the most exciting and challenging problems in astrophysics. By facilitating interdisciplinar...
Christine Jones Forman Elected to National Academy of Sciences
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Earlier this week, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced the election of 120 members and 23 international members, considered to be one of the highest honors that can be accord...
Sheperd Doeleman Awarded the 2023 Georges Lemaître International Prize
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Sheperd "Shep" Doeleman, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has been named the recipient of the Georges Lemaître International Prize by the Louv...
Incoming Postdoc, Outgoing Grad Awarded 51 Pegasi B Fellowships
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Samuel Yee, a soon-to-be postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA), and Juliana García-Mejía, a doctoral student at the CfA, have been awarded 5...
Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever Observed Reveals New Mysteries of Cosmic Explosions
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Cambridge, MA – On October 9, 2022, an intense pulse of gamma-ray radiation swept through our solar system, overwhelming gamma-ray detectors on numerous orbiting satellites, and sending a...
Streamlining the Search for Black Holes
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Floor Broekgaarden was rifling through her dad's library in the basement of her childhood home in the Netherlands. A particular volume caught her eye: A Brief History of Time by the late ...
Could Space Dust Help Protect the Earth from Climate Change?
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Cambridge, MA – On a cold winter day, the warmth of the Sun is welcome. Yet as humanity emits more greenhouse gases, the Earth's atmosphere traps more and more of the Sun's energy, which ...