Dr. Anna Frebel of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has been awarded the 2009 Young Astronomer Award (Ludwig-Biermann Preis) of the German Astronomical Society. Dr. Frebel...

Astronomers, like other research scholars, specialize in the investigation of objects whose importance they recognize. How, then, are new kinds of objects discovered, ones that were prev...

DOGs ("Dust-Obscured Galaxies") are a newly discovered type of galaxy that is extremely luminous but also particularly heavily obscured by dust. Astronomers wonder if they might be a sub...

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...