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Einstein's Theory of Gravitation

Capturing the first image of a supermassive black hole using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This image of the black hole at the center of the nearby galaxy M87 reveals how gravitation affects the ...
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Phoenix Cluster Sets Record Pace at Forming Stars #0

The image on the left shows the newly discovered Phoenix Cluster, located about 5.7 billion light years from Earth. This composite includes an X-ray image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in ...
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Star Clusters

Stars are often gregarious things. Based on observation and theoretical models, many stars are born in clusters — groups of ten or more stars that were formed from the same interstellar cloud. The ...
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ITAMP Postdoctoral Fellows

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Astronomers Create First Map of the Sun's Outer Boundary

Using NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and other near-Earth spacecraft, scientists from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have made and validated the first 2D maps of the Sun’s outer ...
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Astronomers find first direct evidence of “Monster Stars” from the cosmic dawn

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers led the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic primordial stars ...