2014

Video: Harvard Prof. Avi Loeb on structure formation in the early Universe, mapping hydrogen using 21 centimeter line, and density inhomogeneities. Video: http://serious-science.org/videos/1194

A grassroots, student-led effort to train PhD scientists to describe their research with clarity and eloquence draws interest from far and wide: GSAS Bulletin: http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/scholarly_life/telling-the-story-of-science…

"Andromeda looks as if it has ring-like structures rather than spiral arms, but a simulation suggests that this could be merely a trick of perspective." Nature: Galactic collision gave Andromeda its arms ADS: Signatures of the M31-M32 Galactic Collision

At the department's 2014 Awards Ceremony, Rita Fireman awarded two graduating students with the Fireman Fellowship, given each year in honor of her husband. This year's awards were given to Wen-fai Fong and Nathan Sanders. The picture features the two...

Harvard Astronomy Professor, Daniel Eisenstein, along with Shaun Cole and John Peacock, to receive the 2014 Shaw prize in astronomy for their contributions to the measurements of features in the large-scale structure of galaxies used to constrain the...

This groundbreaking model of the universe called Illustris was created by a team of post-doc researchers headed up by Faculty member, Lars Hernquist, and graduate student, Dylan Nelson. This work was first described in a recent Nature article. "It's hard...

Alexander Krolewski, has been awarded a Hoopes Prize for the project entitled "Measuring the luminosity and black hole mass dependence of quasar-galaxy clustering at z ~ 0.8." Natania Wolansky, has been awarded a Hoopes Prize for the project entitled "Are...

The Big Brain Explaining the Growing Universe "Some 14 billion years ago, a violent burst of antigravity drove space to expand at a blistering rate that momentarily exceeded the speed of light..." Read More: http://time.com/70868/john-kovac-2014-time-100/

Harvard President, Drew Faust, dedicated her column in the Harvard Magazine this month to Astronomy due in large part to John Kovac's recent announcements concerning cosmic inflation. See attached PDF file or the link http://harvardmagazine.com/2014/05...

"Eighty percent of the universe is utterly invisible, but an exotic dance of mutually annihilating particles may explain it all" Read More: Time Magazine: The Mystery of Dark Matter: WIMPS May Have the Answer CfA Press Release: Fermi Data Tantalize With...