November

Catherine Zucker, SAO Astrophysicist and Lecturer in Astronomy, delivered the Bok Prize Lecture on "Our 3D View of the Milky Way: from Bart Bok to the Present Day," on November 12, where she skillfully intertwined the subject's history and science. Kenzie...

Recent technical advances and observations have now demonstrated that the goal of making an image of a black hole is within reach. Using the technique of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), in which widely separated radio dishes are linked together...

A team of planet hunters estimates that about 22 percent of the Sun-like stars in our galaxy may have planets about the size of Earth that are bathed in similar amounts of sunlight — and potentially habitable. That's the conclusion of a new analysis by...