2023

Astronomy grad student Vedant Chandra led a paper announcing the discovery of a stellar component of the Magellanic Stream - an enormous ribbon of gas that dominates the southern sky - resolving a decades-long search for such a population of stars. The...

Read about the study that Erandi Chavez led.

Upon his retirement in 2000 after a 40 year-long career, Harvard professor Owen J. Gingerich had, with astronomer David W. Latham, taught the longest-running Harvard course under continuous leadership. He died on May 28, 2023 at the age of 93. Read the...

Sophia Sánchez-Maes has been awarded the Theory-Experiment Cross Training Fellowship (TEX) from the John Templeton Foundation. Under the fellowship, Sophia is studying solar plasma physics, focusing on flares, from both X-ray instrumentation and MHD...

Congratulations to the Astronomy Class of 2023!!!

Harvard Astronomy Graduate Student Juliana Garcia-Mejia was awarded the 2023 Fireman Fellowship of the Astronomy department for her PhD thesis, " The Tierras Observatory: An Ultra-precise Time-series Photometer to Characterize Nearby Low-mass Stars and...

Harvard Astronomy Professor Karin Öberg has been appointed as the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences! Congratulations!

Karin Öberg has been selected for funding from the 2023 Zuckerman Travel and Research STEM Fund at Harvard University. The Fund supports the development of new research collaborations in STEM fields between faculty members and researchers in Harvard’s...

The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) will present the Centennial Medal to six distinguished alumni on May 24, 2023, culminating a year of celebration of the School’s 150th anniversary. The Centennial Medal, which...

Congratulations to the 2023 FAS Hoopes Prize winners for best senior theses: Brian Hsu, working with Edo Berger Maya Skarbinski, working with Daniel Eisenstein