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• Free, online course in physics offered by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

  14 January 2011

  

   

• New telescope exploring Solar System’s “outback”

  12 January 2011

  

   

• Giant impact may explain origin of Martian moons Phobos and Deimos

  21 December 2010

  

   

• International team discovers alien planet that’s Jupiter-sized

  14 December 2010

  

   

• Discovery triples number of stars in universe

  1 December 2010

  

   

• Astronomers discover merging star systems that might explode

  16 November 2010

  

   

• Chandra X-ray Observatory finds youngest nearby black hole

  15 November 2010

  

   

• Astronomers find giant, previously unseen structure in our galaxy

  15 November 2010

  

   

• Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist discovers new method to weigh some distant stars

  8 November 2010

  

   

• Newly discovered massive galaxy cluster wins heavyweight title

  15 October 2010

  

   

• Kepler spacecraft used by Smithsonian astronomers to find other earths

  12 October 2010

  

   

• Milky Way sidelined in galactic tug of war

  6 October 2010

  

   

• Center for Astrophysics will play major role in mission to “touch” the Sun

  15 September 2010

  

   

• Can we spot volcanoes on alien worlds? Astronomers say yes

  7 September 2010

  

   

• Smithsonian Scientist Discovers the Moon is Shrinking

  20 August 2010

  

   

• “Death Star” Shreds, Swallows Dwarf Planet

  22 June 2010