Nearly 300 years after Immanuel Kant proposed that our solar system’s family of planets condensed from a flattened disk of gas and dust, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revealed that such planetary ...
CfA scientists are authors on 77 presentations, and four press conferences during the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society Cambridge, Mass. (December 22, 2025)— New scientific results ...
Capturing the first image of a supermassive black hole using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This image of the black hole at the center of the nearby galaxy M87 reveals how gravitation affects the ...
The image on the left shows the newly discovered Phoenix Cluster, located about 5.7 billion light years from Earth. This composite includes an X-ray image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in ...
Stars are often gregarious things. Based on observation and theoretical models, many stars are born in clusters — groups of ten or more stars that were formed from the same interstellar cloud. The ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers led the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic primordial stars ...
Using NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and other near-Earth spacecraft, scientists from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have made and validated the first 2D maps of the Sun’s outer ...
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