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NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered 170 planetary systems containing between two and six transiting planets. This animation shows all the multiple-planet systems discovered by Kepler as of ...
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Astronomers Reveal Remarkable Simulations of the Early Universe, from the Dark Ages through First Light
New high-resolution simulations show one million galaxies forming some 13 billion years ago. Cambridge, MA-- It looks like fireflies flickering in the darkness. Slowly, more and more amass, lighting ...
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Event Horizon Telescope Makes Highest-Resolution Black Hole Detections from Earth
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has conducted test observations achieving the highest resolution ever obtained from the surface of the Earth, by detecting light from the centers of ...
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The Tilt in our Stars: The Shape of the Milky Way's Halo of Stars is Realized
New data throws out the textbook picture of a spherical stellar halo and reinforces a dynamic origin story of two galaxies that collided billions of years ago. Cambridge, Mass. – A new study has ...
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The Radcliffe Wave is Waving
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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Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
CfA astronomers led two new EHT studies that have produced the first polarized light image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy. Cambridge, MA--A new image from the ...
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Ready for its Close-up: New Technology Sharpens Images of Black Holes
Using new computational algorithms, scientists have measured a sharp ring of light predicted to originate from photons whipping around the back of a supermassive black hole. Cambridge, MA – When ...
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M87* One Year Later: Proof of a Persistent Black Hole Shadow
CfA astronomers helped lead a study discovering changes in the bright ring around M87's black hole, confirming the theoretical understanding of the variable and turbulent flow of material around black ...
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CfA Astronomers Help Find Most Distant Galaxy Using James Webb Space Telescope
An international team of astronomers, including CfA scientists, used JWST to find a record-breaking galaxy observed less than 300 million years after the Big Bang. Cambridge, MA--An international team ...
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Astronomers Release New All-Sky Map of the Milky Way's Outer Reaches
The highlight of the new chart is a wake of stars, stirred up by a small galaxy set to collide with the Milky Way. The map could also offer a new test of dark matter theories. Cambridge, MA - ...