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Astronomers Detect Missing Ingredient in Cooking Up Stars

The missing ingredient for cooking up stars has been spotted for the first time by astronomers. Much like a pressure cooker has a weight on top of its lid to keep the pressure in, merging galaxies may need magnetic fields to create the ideal...
30-Jan-2025 9:55 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Scientists Make First-Ever Detection of Mid-IR Flares in Sgr A*

An international team of scientists, including multiple astronomers from CfA, have made the first-ever detection of a mid-IR flare from Sgr A*.
14-Jan-2025 10:15 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Stellar Pyrotechnics on Display in Super Star Cluster

Astronomers have unveiled an explosive cosmic fireworks display of stars interacting with their environment. This dazzling spectacle – due to powerful winds flowing from the stars – marks a major milestone in the ability to study the formation...
13-Jan-2025 7:35 PM EST Add to Favorites

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A Treasure Trove of Unseen Stars Seen Beyond the ‘Dragon Arc’

An international team of astronomers took pictures of more than 40 individual stars in a galaxy so far away its light dates back to when the universe was only half its present age.
6-Jan-2025 12:15 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Black Hole Explorer Hopes to Reveal New Details of Supermassive Black Holes

CfA has entered into an MOU with NSF NRAO on the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX), a project which would increase the capabilities of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) by launching it into space.
12-Dec-2024 8:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Dandelion Supernova Revealed in 3-D

For nearly six months, during the year 1181, people looked up to the skies to find a new star glittering in the constellation Cassiopeia. Chinese and Japanese astronomers recorded the rare event, an explosion of a star, or supernova. Now,...
25-Oct-2024 10:55 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Smithsonian Scientists Help Uncover How The Solar Wind Gets Its Energy

Since the 1960s, astronomers have wondered how the Sun's supersonic "solar wind," a stream of energetic particles that flows out into the Solar System, continues to receive energy once it leaves the Sun. Now, thanks to a lucky line up of two...
4-Sep-2024 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration— which includes scientists from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA)— has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the...
27-Mar-2024 9:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites


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