Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Shining Only About 300 Million Years After the Big Bang, It May Be Home to the Oldest Stars in the Universe or a Supermassive Black Hole

New High-Resolution Simulations Show 1 Million Galaxies Forming Some 13 Billion Years Ago

Astronomers Have Presented New Explanation for Mysterious Downward-Moving Dark Voids Seen in Some Solar Flares

For the First Time, Astronomers Have Retraced the History of Earth’s Galactic Neighborhood, Showing Exactly How the Young Stars Nearest to Its Solar System Formed

Instrument Made by Scientists and Engineers at the Center for Astrophysics Has Helped Verify That—for the First Time in History—a Spacecraft Has Entered the Corona of the Sun

Researchers Predicted the New Class of Star’s Existence for 50 Years but Until Now Had Never Observed It in Space

New Series of Powerful Space Telescopes Has Been Recommended for Mission Maturation and Technology Development as a Top National Priority. Includes a Powerful X-ray Telescope Inspired by the Lynx X-Ray Observatory Conceived at the Center for Astrophysics.

Astronomers Discover a Humongous Cavity in Space While Mapping Interstellar Dust; the Sphere-shaped Phenomenon May Explain How Supernovae Lead to Star Formation

Series of New Images Reveals That Planets Form in Organic Soups—and No Two Soups Are Alike