June 17, 2009 CfA-Designed Exhibit on Black Holes Expected to "Pull In" Museum Visitors On Sunday, June 21, 2009, a new exhibit developed by educators and scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) will open at the Boston Museum of Science.  Read More...

June 10, 2009 Peculiar, Junior-Sized Supernova Discovered by New York Teen In November 2008, Caroline Moore, a 14-year-old student from upstate New York, discovered a supernova in a nearby galaxy, making her the youngest person ever to do so.  Read More...

June 10, 2009 Radio Telescope Images Reveal Planet-Forming Disk Orbiting Twin Suns Astronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA) clearly reveals the presence of a rotating molecular disk orbiting the young binary star system V4046 Sagittarii.  Read More...