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Academics & Opportunities - Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The Center for Astrophysics (CfA) provides world-class opportunities for academic training and career development in astrophysics. It is home to the Harvard University Department of Astronomy, which ...
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Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian How can we expand the limits of human knowledge further into the unknown? The Center for Astrophysics is a collaboration between the Smithsonian ...
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REU FAQ - Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
GENERAL QUESTIONS 1. Is the summer program essentially the same every year? 2. I'm a very bright high school student. Can I apply to this Program? 3. I am a high school student. I'm taking some ...
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Astronomers Reveal Remarkable Simulations of the Early Universe, from the Dark Ages through First Light - Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Cambridge, MA -- It looks like fireflies flickering in the darkness. Slowly, more and more amass, lighting up the screen in large chunks and clusters. But this is not a video about insects. It's a ...
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The Radcliffe Wave is Waving - Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
A few years ago, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) uncovered one of the Milky Way's greatest secrets: an enormous, wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds in our sun ...
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Event Horizon Telescope Makes Highest-Resolution Black Hole Detections from Earth - Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), astronomers have achieved very-long-baseline interferometry test observations at 345 GHz, the highest-resolution such observations ever obtained from the ...
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The Tilt in our Stars: The Shape of the Milky Way's Halo of Stars is Realized - Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Cambridge, Mass. – A new study has revealed the true shape of the diffuse cloud of stars surrounding the disk of our galaxy. For decades, astronomers thought this cloud of stars — called the stellar ...
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Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way’s Central Black Hole - Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Cambridge, MA-- 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 ...
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Ready for its Close-up: New Technology Sharpens Images of Black Holes - Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Cambridge, MA – When scientists unveiled humanity’s historic first image of a black hole in 2019 — depicting a dark core encircled by a fiery aura of material falling toward it — they believed even ...
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'Black Hole Police' Discover a Dormant Black Hole Outside of the Milky Way Galaxy | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Cambridge, Mass. – A team of international experts who are known for debunking black hole discoveries have found a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that ...
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Astronomers Release New All-Sky Map of the Milky Way's Outer Reaches - Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Cambridge, MA - Astronomers using data from NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency) telescopes have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our galaxy. Known as the galactic halo, this ...
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A New GPS for the Intergalactic Medium: Astronomers Have Found the Home Address for Universe's "Missing" Matter | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
A landmark study led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has pinpointed the Universe’s “missing” matter using Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)— brief, bright radio signals from ...