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• Astronomers appraise the amount of water in the Orion Nebula

  7 February 2011

  

   

• Smithsonian Digital Repository Now Contains 10,000 Items

  2 February 2011

  

   

• New study examines how planetesimals influence the development of a planetary system

  31 January 2011

  

   

• New interactive World Wide Telescope tour chronicles career of Harvard-Smithsonian astronomer John Huchra

  28 January 2011

  

   

• 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