2014

The graduating Senior Concentrators in the Department presented their theses on April 7, 2014 in Phillips Auditorium. Pictured below are: (left to right) Caleb Canas, Diana Powell, Natania Wolansky, Adrian Arteaga, and Brian Claus. [[{"fid":"220196","view...

Detection and characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres, with emphasis on developing new observational techniques to study the atmospheres of the Earth-like planets to be discovered by the NASA TESS mission. Website Email Contact: Dr. Mercedes (Mlopez...

Celebrating the Impact of New Ideas and New Discoveries Sarah Rugheimer, Harvard Astronomy Graduate Student, was one of the eight selected Harvard Scholars who joined President Faust, Provost Alan Garber, FAS Dean Mike Smith, and GSAS Dean Xiao-Li Meng as...

"Four billion years from now, our galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with our large spiraled neighbor, Andromeda. The galaxies as we know them will not survive. In fact, our solar system is going to outlive our galaxy. At that point, the sun will not yet...

"The landscape in Chile’s Atacama desert is Martian-like: dry, barren and flanked by volcanoes, and its high altitude and unpolluted skies make it a prime spot for stargazing. It was there, after a full night of such observation — and over a 4 p.m...

For information on BICEP2 2014 Results. Go to: http://bicepkeck.org/ CFA Press Release: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2014-05 Selected Press: NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/science/space/detection-of-waves-in-s…...

Harvard Astronomy Undergraduate Alumni Neil deGrasse Tyson is picking up where Carl Sagan left off in a new series called "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey." Links: NY Times: A Successor to Sagan Reboots ‘Cosmos’

Thursday February 18, 2014 there were four short presentations celebrating the 50 years anniversary for the discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as evidence for the Big Bang. The event took place at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for...

Watch an online webcast of an Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory Night event tonight ( Thursday, February 20, 2014) at 7:30PM celebrating "50 Years After the Discovery of the Big Bang", featuring four 20 minute presentations by Alan Guth, Bob Wilson, Bob...

Karin Oberg won the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for 2014. Also among the recipients are the former students of our department, Ryan Hickox and Phil Hopkins, and the former ITC postdoc, Dan Fabrycky. "The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to...