Science news articles about 'smithsonian astrophysical observatory'

  • Harvard-Smithsonian Research Physicist Dr. Kate Kirby Named New APS Executive Officer

    ... a national search, that Dr. Kate Kirby, research physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and lecturer in the Harvard University Department of Astronomy, has accepted the position of ...
  • NASA celebrates Chandra X-Ray Observatory's 10th anniversary

    ... deployed. Marshall manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls science and flight operations from the Chandra X-ray Center.
  • Dark energy found stifling growth in universe

    ... could be described as 'arrested development of the universe'," said Alexey Vikhlinin of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., who led the research. "Whatever is forcing the ...
  • Cassiopeia A comes alive across time and space

    ... , but so far the show has been amazing," said Daniel Patnaude of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass. "And, we can use this to learn more about the aftermath of the star's ...
  • Astronomers unveiling life's cosmic origins

    ... than we had expected and now have new questions to answer," she said. Using the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Submillimeter Array (SMA) in Hawaii, Brogan and her colleagues studied a ...
  • Turbulence may promote the birth of massive stars

    ... Array (SMA), a joint project of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy ... Center for Astrophysics (CfA) studied two cosmic cocoons located 15,000 light ...
  • Geriatric pulsar still kicking

    ... Ala., manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra's science and flight operations from Cambridge, Mass.
  • Ghost remains after black hole eruption

    ... ., manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra's science and flight operations from Cambridge, Mass.
  • Supernova remnant is an unusual suspect

    ... Ala., manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra's science and flight operations from Cambridge, Mass.
  • VERITAS telescopes help solve 100-year-old mystery: The origin of cosmic rays

    ... was sensitive enough to see it," said Wystan Benbow, an astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Benbow coordinated this project for the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope ...

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