Astronomy
Harvard Astronomy Chair Nominated for President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
Harvard Astronomy department chair Abraham Loeb was nominated to be a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on Monday.
Harvard Astrophysicists Detect Binary White Dwarf System Generating Gravitational Waves
Researchers at the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a pair of white dwarf stars that orbit each other and produce gravitational waves — the first wave source of this type ever found.
Harvard Physicists Refine Images of Black Hole
A team led by scientists at the Harvard Black Hole Initiative published an article Wednesday outlining a method to simulate sharper images of a black hole.
Harvard, Vanderbilt Scientists Find “Stellar Budget” for Colliding Stars
Scientists at Harvard and Vanderbilt University released a study showing that only a fraction of stars eventually collide as black holes on Friday.
Harvard Scientists Find Wave of Stellar Nurseries in Milky Way
Astronomers at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study have discovered a massive wave of stellar nurseries located near the sun through research incorporating data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission.
Harvard Astrophysicists Help Develop Galaxy-Mapping Telescope
Harvard researchers are among those from 13 countries who have designed the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, a telescope that will soon map the locations of galaxies across the universe and explore dark energy.
Harvard Groups Host Discussion of Controversial Hawaii Telescope Project
More than 50 people gathered Monday evening to discuss ongoing protests against the proposed construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the Mauna Kea summit of Hawaii’s Big Island.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics where researchers worked to produced the first ever picture of a black hole.
Astronomy Center
The Astronomy Center is home to Professor Avi Loeb, who is conducting research on the interstellar objects in search of alien life.
Harvard Undergrad, Professor Identify First Interstellar Meteor, Say It Could Support Theories of Life in Other Solar Systems
Astronomy Department Chair and Professor Avi Loeb teamed up with an undergraduate to identify the first interstellar meteor ever reported in our solar system.
Harvard Astronomers Help Capture First-Ever Image of Black Hole
A research group led by a Harvard scientist unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole Wednesday morning, drawing praise from both the scientific community and the general public.
Following 2017 Controversy Over Origins of the Universe, New Paper Offers Test for Cosmic Inflation
Harvard astronomers have identified a cosmic signature that might help scientists understand what happened before the Big Bang. The paper provides a possible test to determine what happened before the Big Bang, a question that has long puzzled physicists and astronomers alike.
Or Graur: CRLS
Or Graur is an Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow and the Director of the Harvard Science Research Mentoring Program.
New Harvard Study ‘Galactic Panspermia’ Posits Transfer of Life Between Planets
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics recently released a study about an astronomical theory called panspermia.
Undergrads Spearhead Repairs to Loomis-Michael Observatory Telescope
The changes are minor, but long overdue, according to Student Astronomers at Harvard-Radcliffe President Rodrigo E. Cordova ’19.
Breakthrough Starshot Initiative Aims to Discover Life in Other Solar Systems
Loeb said in an interview Monday that one of Breakthrough Starshot’s greatest challenges is designing a lightweight spacecraft that can travel at a fifth of the speed of light.
Harvard, MIT, and Cambridge Researchers Refine Origin of Life Hypothesis
Researchers from Harvard, MIT, and the University of Cambridge have found that sulfur compounds in the early earth’s atmosphere may have contributed to the origins of life.
Astrophysicists Develop New Universe Simulation
Scientists at Harvard and five other institutions around the world have developed a new computer simulation of the universe.
Astronomers Discuss Black Holes, Cosmic Radiation at Luncheon
About a hundred astronomers and visiting scholars gathered at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to hear a presentation on astronomy's latest advancements.
Breakthrough Starshot
I warn him that I study history, but he is encouraging. “Well, history begins with the big bang.”
Eyes to the Sky: Annie Jump Cannon and the Harvard Observatory
While Cannon’s system of classification was respected by and essential to the astronomical community, it was dubbed the “Harvard System,” erasing Cannon’s name from its history.
Digitizing the Sky
In the 1880s, Edward Charles Pickering, a stout Harvard astronomer whose deeply angled eyebrows recall an angry cartoon character, took on a new project: photographing the entire sky.
Harvard Astronomer, Institute Offer Support for Students of Color in Sciences
Astronomy Professor John A. Johnson tells his students almost every lecture that there is no such thing as a natural astrophysicist.