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Searching for the origins of life... and our future (BBC News)

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By Karen Weintraub Cambridge, Massachusetts November 8, 2011 Hollywood is wrong about aliens. They don't have oddly shaped heads, bulging eyes or even an eery green hue. Dimitar Sasselov is pretty convinced of that. He's not even sure we'll know them when...

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Fast radio bursts might come from nearby stars

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Although their characteristics suggested fast radio bursts came from distant galaxies, new research points to origins from flaring stars within the Milky Way. Read Full Astronomy.com article: http://www.astronomy.com/news/2013/12/fast-radio-bursts-might...

Exoplanet discovered with new technique that uses Einstein's relativity

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Artist's conception of Kepler-76b, orbiting its elongated star David A. Aguilar (CfA) A new method for detecting planet that Loeb & Gaudi proposed in 2003 was demonstrated to work and a new planet, Kepler 76b, was discovered with it. Read More: Wired UK...

Congratulations to Professor Ryan Hickox

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In case you haven't already heard the news about Ryan Hickox - a former Harvard grad student - now tenured professor at Dartmouth! Ryan also is one of the first "house professors" in the house system that Dartmouth is expanding: https://news.dartmouth.edu...

BICEP2 2014 Results: First Direct Evidence of Cosmic Inflation

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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…...

Faculty members Bob Kirshner and Chris Stubbs, graduate alums Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt, win Breakthrough Prize

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The High-Z Supernova Search Team and the Supernova Cosmology Project have been awarded the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe. There are 51 team members sharing one award. Saul...

Horizons scholar Floor Broekgaarden brings data science to the study of stars

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Streamlining the Search for Black Holes https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/streamlining-search-black-holes

Good data are not enough

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"A vibrant scientific culture encourages many interpretations of evidence, argues Avi Loeb. Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/good-data-are-not-enough-1.20906

Planets Can Form in the Galactic Center

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In this artist's conception, a protoplanetary disk of gas and dust (red) is being shredded by the powerful gravitational tides of our galaxy's central black hole. Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA) At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a...

Dave Charbonneau featured in University of Chicago Big Brains podcast on exoplanets.

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Quick link https://news.uchicago.edu/podcasts/big-brains/hunt-alien-life-and-exopl…

The Scope of TESS

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Harvard astronomer Latham set for lead role in exoplanet mission.Read More: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/07/harvards-david-latham-on…