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Smithsonian Starstruck Makes Its World Premiere in Washington, D.C., Launching an Immersive Journey to the Cosmos

Built from real astronomical data, the fully immersive experience brings stars, galaxies and black holes within reach. Washington, D.C., May 28--The Smithsonian launches a gateway to the cosmos with ...
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The Solar Wind’s Secret Hammerheads and What They Tell Us About Heat in Space

Cambridge, MA (May 27, 2026) —The proton sharks showed up on a Friday. In a routine data calibration meeting for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe in 2020, a small group of scientists were scrolling through ...
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Astronomers Uncover Why Some Solar Eruptions Die

New multi-telescope observations show why a powerful blast never became a true mass ejection. Cambridge, MA (May, 20, 2026) — A team of scientists has recorded one of the most detailed views ever of a ...
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Astronomers Directly Detect How Turbulence Between Stars Distorts Light

Using a distant quasar as a beacon, researchers identified the tiny, turbulence-driven ripples imprinted on the quasar’s radio signal as it passed through a particularly chaotic region of the Milky ...
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Harvard astronomy seniors kick off careers with thesis presentations at the CfA

The students’ presentations ranged from astrochemistry and Earth-like planet atmosphere formation to unusual movement patterns by red supergiant star Betelgeuse. Cambridge, MA (April 27, 2026) — Six ...
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'Interstellar Glaciers': NASA’s SPHEREx Maps Vast Galactic Ice Regions

In observations led by CfA scientists, NASA’s SPHEREx has mapped water, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide ices attached to the surface of tiny dust particles in clouds spanning hundreds of ...
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'Space Archaeology' Reveals First Dynamic History of a Giant Spiral Galaxy

For the first time, astronomers used galactic archaeology techniques to trace the chemical "fossil record" of a galaxy outside the Milky Way Cambridge, MA (March 23, 2026) — A team of astronomers led ...
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NASA's Hubble Reveals Largest Found Chaotic Birthplace of Planets

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 ...
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New X-ray Space Telescope Gives Sharpest-Ever Glimpse at Growth of a Rapidly-Spinning Black Hole

The first results on the iconic active galactic nucleus MCG–6-30-15 captured with the XRISM mission show the most precise signatures yet of its supermassive black hole’s extreme gravity and the ...
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New NASA-Backed Research Platform SciX Expands Open Science

The new research data and discovery platform expands beyond astrophysics into the Earth, environmental and space sciences. Cambridge, MA -The team behind the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) has ...
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New EHT Images Reveal Unexpected Polarization Flips at M87*

The new multi-year Event Horizon Telescope observations capture evolving polarization patterns in a neighboring galaxy's supermassive black hole. Cambridge, MA— The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) ...
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Origin of Mysterious Radio Signal Possibly Discovered

CfA astronomers have led the discovery of what may be the source of a powerful burst of radio waves coming from another galaxy Cambridge, MA - Astronomers have discovered what may be the source of a ...