February

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...

"Black holes, the ultradense collapsed objects predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, are often depicted as voracious feeders whose extraordinary gravity acts like a one-way membrane: Everything is sucked in, even light, and virtually...

Sarah Rugheimer was selected as a 2014 Horizon Scholar . The Horizon Scholars are recognized as graduate students "whose ideas, innovations, and insights have the potential to reshape their disciplines." More Information: Graduate School Press Release

John Johnson was featured in Symmetry Magazine's "Physicists to Follow" feature: Symmetry Magazine: #FollowFriday IV: Physicists to follow on Twitter @astrojohnjohn