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Monthly Observatory Night Thursday, February 16, 7:30 pm: "The Life of Super-Earths," Dimitar Sasselov

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Monthly Observatory Night Thursday, February 16, 7:30 pm: "The Life of Super-Earths," Dimitar Sasselov, CfA In 1543 Copernicus showed that our planet isn't the center of the universe. Centuries later, we know that just as Earth is not the center of things...

Dissertation Writers Support Group

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Six weekly meetings starting mid-February Contact BSC for details. Date and time is approximation

Astrophysics Concentrators Spring Lunch

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The Astrophysics Concentrators enjoyed lunch with our faculty on Friday, February 28th. The scientific exchanges were stimulating, and a bit of fun was shared by all.

Faculty members Bob Kirshner and Avi Loeb participate in simulcast event Thursday, Feb 20 celebrating the Big Bang theory

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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...

The First Galaxies in the Universe

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On February 1, 2013 at 2-3:30 PM, there will be a book launch event in Phillips auditorium for Avi Loeb's new textbook " The First Galaxies in the Universe." The textbook was written in collaboration with Loeb's former Astronomy graduate student, Steve...

Fast Radio Burst "Afterglow" Was Actually a Flickering Black Hole

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Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the burst's origin, a longstanding goal in studies of these mysterious events. These...

Public Talk: 50 year anniversary for the discovery of the cosmic microwave background

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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...

Solar Storms, Tree Rings and Astrochronology: New Radiocarbon Research from Oxford

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On Thursday, February 2 nd, Dr. Michael Dee will speak on “Solar Storms, Tree Rings and Astrochronology: New Radiocarbon Research from Oxford” from 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm in CGIS South Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge. Dr. Dee is currently at the...

It’s Snack Time in the Cosmos

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"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...

Quantifying our Astrochemical Origins, Karin Oberg

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Karin Oberg (Univ. of Virginia) will be visiting the CfA on Monday and Tuesday, February 11-12. She will give the following seminar in Phillips Auditorium on Monday at 10AM. Title: Quantifying our Astrochemical Origins Abstract: Chemical Imaging and...

A. Friedman PhD Colloquium - CfAIR2: Infrared Observations of ~100 Type Ia Supernovae with PAIRITEL

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The Ph.D. colloquium by Andy Friedman will be held on Wednesday, February 22, at 11:00 AM in Phillips Auditorium It will also be this week's OIR seminar: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/oir/events/2012spring/lunch20120222.html The following day, Thursday...

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