Seeing Stars
“We’ll be able to see the beginning of the universe as we know it today,” says Charles Alcock, director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and professor of astronomy—imaging the...
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How did this story begin? Just after the Big Bang, the universe was “so smooth it was almost featureless,” as Charles Alcock describes it: an era when there was “no structure, no chemistry, no...
View ArticleExploring Exoplanets
Is there life beyond Earth? Likely no question excites greater lay interest in space science. Answering it requires astronomers to find planets (not simple, because stars are big and bright, their...
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