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Selina Hokello Shares PRISE Summer Research at Final Poster Session
As an undergraduate researcher in Harvard’s prestigious PRISE program, Selina Hokello delivered her final poster presentation today, showcasing the culmination of her summer research experience. The Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE)...
Selina Hokello

Prof. Karin Öberg awarded Harnack Lecture
Prof. Karin Öberg awarded Harnack Lecture. The Harnack Lecture is an honour lecture by the Max Planck Society in commemoration of the German science reformer Adolf von Harnack. The international networking of science was an important element of Adolf von...

HARVARD PORTRAIT Karin Öberg
GROWING UP IN Lutheran Sweden, Karin Öberg had no inkling that she would one day become an astrochemist, the first to observe a complex organic molecule in the freezing cloud of gas and dust surrounding a young star—or that she would convert to...
Karin Oberg headshot

A Circumplanetary Disk Candidate Spotted with ALMA
Astronomers may have found a gaseous disk around a planet orbiting the young star AS 209. This is one of just four circumplanetary disk candidates discovered so far, and these observations enable the first mass estimate of a circumplanetary disk’s gas...
This image of the AS 209 protoplanetary disk at a wavelength of 1.25 millimeters shows the thermal emission from the dust. The white line at the lower right is a 10-au scale bar and the white circle at the lower left is the beam size for the observations.

Planets Form in Organic Soups with Different Ingredients
Cambridge, MA -- Astronomers have mapped out the chemicals inside of planetary nurseries in extraordinary detail. The newly unveiled maps reveal the locations of dozens of molecules within five protoplanetary disks — regions of dust and gas where planets...
In this artists conception, planets form from the gas and dust in the protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star.