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CfA Astronomers Help Catch Rare Gamma-Ray Outburst from M87’s Powerful Jet
An international team of astronomers, including CfA astronomers and collaborators from VERITAS and Chandra, recorded the first very-high energy flaring episode from supermassive black hole M87 since ...
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Large Aperture Experiment to Explore the Dark Ages (LEDA)
At some point early in the history of the universe, the first stars were born. However, we don’t know exactly when that was, or what the first generation of stars looked like. The Large Aperture ...
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Center for Astrophysics
How can we expand the limits of human knowledge further into the unknown? The Center for Astrophysics is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Harvard College ...
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Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
The Sun may be the nearest star, but there’s still a lot we don’t understand about it. One of the larger mysteries is the solar corona: the tenuous outermost atmosphere that’s only visible to the ...
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Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory - Mt. Hopkins, AZ
From its establishment in 1966 as the Smithsonian Mount Hopkins Observatory, FLWO has hosted a world-class suite of telescopes designed for a wide variety of purposes. The largest visible-light ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES)
JADES will use guaranteed time in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cycle 1 to produce infrared imaging and spectroscopy of unprecedented depth in the two premier extragalactic deep fields, ...
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The Galileo Project
The Galileo Project for the Systematic Scientific Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts ...
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For Educators and Students
The CfA, comprised of education researchers, scientists, teachers, media specialists and graduate students, is a national leader in science education. Major projects include the development of ...
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Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) consortium is conducting a five-year survey to map the large-scale structure of the Universe over one-third of the sky and 11 billion years of cosmic ...
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Current Night Sky
Four Planets in One View! Each evening this month, enjoy a sweeping view of four bright planets at once. Also look for a close approach of Venus and Saturn, Mars occulted by the Moon, and meteors! Cue ...
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Gould's Belt Survey
Gould’s Belt is a long chain of clouds in the Milky Way comprised of stellar nurseries and hot young stars. Stretching across a substantial part of the night sky, Gould’s Belt includes the Orion ...
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Big Questions
The research at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian centers on humanity’s greatest unresolved questions about the nature of the universe. These questions have been pondered for ...