August

Doug Finkbeiner and Allyson Bieryla led 8 undergraduate concentrators on the annual Astronomy Senior Trip. Some highlights from this year's trip to Hawaii were telescope tours of the SMA on Mauna Kea and Pan-STARRS on Haleakala, a trip to Volcano National...

Professor Bob Kirshner celebrates the successful casting of the third of seven mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope which the Dean of FAS, Michael Smith, has just approved as a major funding-raising focus for the University. The casts are made under...

The faculty and post-docs extended their winning streak in a spectacular regulation soccer match (7:3) at the annual ITC picnic on August 11th at Harvard's athletic grounds. Pictured below, ITC Director Avi Loeb is double-teamed by students Doug Ferrer...

Cambridge, MA - Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and their colleagues at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) have invented a new computational approach that can accurately follow the birth and...

Cambridge, MA - Astronomers have found an extraordinary galaxy cluster, one of the largest objects in the universe, that is breaking several important cosmic records. Observations of the Phoenix cluster with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the National...

Where will you be in 10 100? Read an article by Kate Becker of PBS Nova that explores the deep future. Read: A Trip to the Deep Future Image Left: A computer simulation of the cosmic web of dark matter and ordinary matter. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and E...