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
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Astronomers have unveiled an explosive cosmic fireworks display of stars interacting with their environment. This dazzling spectacle 鈥� due to powerful winds flowing from the stars 鈥� marks a major milestone in the ability to study the formation...
13-Jan-2025 7:35 PM EST
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration鈥� which includes scientists from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA)鈥� has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the...
27-Mar-2024 9:00 AM EDT
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A newly discovered nearby supernova whose star ejected up to a full solar mass of material in the year prior to its explosion is challenging the standard theory of stellar evolution.
27-Sep-2023 9:00 AM EDT
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