Cambridge, MA 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 Sci...

Dr. Christine Jones of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has been awarded the 2009 Marcel Grossman Award for her fundamental contributions to the X-ray studies of galaxies a...

The Orion Nebula, one of the most famous sights in the night sky, contains several clusters of hot young stars. In fact, the nebula's bright glow comes from gas and dust that are illumin...

Pasadena, CA 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 di...

Cambridge, MA 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. Addi...

The most luminous galaxies in our universe are not particularly bright in the visible. Most of their energy is emitted at infrared wavelengths, and astronomers have found examples in whi...

The most luminous galaxies in our universe are not particularly bright in the visible. Most of their energy is emitted at infrared wavelengths, and astronomers have found examples in whic...

SI Secretary Wayne Clough traveled to Las Campanas Observatory in Chile to explore Smithsonian's future role in astronomy. Accompanying Secretary Clough was Dr. Andrea Dupree (shown at r...

The very early stages of a new star's life are critical ones, both for the star itself and for its future planets (if any are to develop). The process of star formation, once thought to ...

Seyfert galaxies are similar to normal galaxies like our own Milky Way except in one critical respect: their nuclei are fantastically bright -- in extreme instances as luminous as 100 bi...