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WEBThe Center for Astrophysics is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Harvard College Observatory that’s designed to ask big questions about the universe, build the tools needed to answer them, and …
About - Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
WEBThe Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian is a collaboration between Harvard and Smithsonian designed to ask — and ultimately answer — humanity’s greatest unresolved questions about the nature of the universe.
Cosmology | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
WEBThe Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), as part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, manages Chandra’s day-to-day operations, providing spacecraft control, observation planning, and data processing for astronomers. Chandra is one of NASA’s orbiting Great Observatories, along with the Hubble.
Galaxy Formation and Evolution - Harvard–Smithsonian Center …
WEBGalaxy Formation and Evolution. Galaxies are home to most of the stars in the universe, and they form the beads of the cosmic jewelry that defines structure on the largest scales. But galaxies haven’t always been around, and they have changed over the universe’s 13.8 billion-year history. Astronomers study the ways galaxies form and evolve ...
Black Holes | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
WEBCenter for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian scientists are part of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which captured the first-ever image of the black hole: the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87. Intermediate Mass Black Holes are the most mysterious, since we’ve hardly seen any of them yet.
Stellar Structure and Evolution - Harvard–Smithsonian Center …
WEBStellar Structure and Evolution. Stars are the source of almost all of the light our eyes see in the sky. Nuclear fusion is what makes a star what it is: the creation of new atomic nuclei within the star’s core. Many of stars’ properties — how long they live, what color they appear, how they die — are largely determined by how massive ...
Research - Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
WEBResearch at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian covers a broad range of fields, from theory to laboratory astrophysics and observation. Learn more about the specific fields of science that our researchers and engineers focus on in their pursuit of asking, testing, and answering the greatest unresolved questions about our Universe.
Solar System | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
WEBCenter for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian scientists study the Solar System in many ways: Participating in current and next-generation astronomical surveys mapping a large part of the sky. The multi-year Pan-STARRS survey has revealed many comets, asteroids, and other small Solar System bodies. Studying the Sun using probes and ...
Theoretical Astrophysics - Harvard–Smithsonian Center for …
WEBTheoretical Astrophysics. Understanding the cosmos involves both observation and theory. Observation provides real-world data about how stars, galaxies, and other objects in space behave. Theory connects that data together into a full understanding, and makes predictions about phenomena we haven’t observed yet.
News | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
WEBNews. Research at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian covers the full spectrum of astrophysics, from atomic physics to the Big Bang. In concert with the joint missions of our parent institutions, Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution, we consider it our duty to share that research openly, furthering humanity's ...
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