Cambridge, MA (September 14, 2026) —A new study of nine nearby galaxies has shown that actively growing supermassive black holes may contribute to star formation, instead preventing star formation, in ...
The Milky Way alone probably contains hundreds of billions of planets, based on the thousands of exoplanets we’ve already identified. These planets share a history and origin with their host stars, ...
Cambridge, MA (September 17, 2026) — The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), part of the Center for Astrophysics, has been awarded $3,597,771 from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF) ...
The best telescopes in the world are only as good as the technology used in detecting light from astronomical phenomena. Modern detector technology does far more than just take pretty pictures: it’s ...
Background: VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is a stereoscopic array of four atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes that are sensitive to very high energy (VHE; E> 100 GeV) ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey continues its twenty-year legacy of wide-field optical/infrared imaging and spectroscopy, which has led astronomy into the era of large archives and data science. Harvard ...
The Office of Advancement at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian coordinates fundraising efforts to enable our scientists and ...
Dr. Delilah Gates received her Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 2021 and B.S.s in Physics and in Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2015. Before returning to ...
At the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, we look to the cosmos to find answers to the greatest unanswered questions about the universe, capturing images of distant celestial objects and ...
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