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Alessandra Canta receives 2021 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is pleased to announce the 2021 recipients of the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize. The three winners were selected from among 74 Harvard College seniors awarded the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize by the Faculty of Arts...
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Dr. Price wins 2021 Eric R. Keto Prize in Theoretical Astrophysics
Congratulations to Ellen Price for winning the 2021 Eric R. Keto Prize for Graduate Students in Theoretical Astrophysics. Ellen won for her thesis “ Simulating Protoplanetary Disk Dynamics and Investigating their Exoplanet Outcomes.” Karin Oberg was her...
Ellen Price outside of observatory domes

Astrophysics student Ellen Price awarded 51 Pegasi B Fellowship
Ellen Price, a doctoral student at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has been awarded the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship from the Heising-Simons Foundation. Price is one of only eight students in the nation to receive this prestigious award...
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2021 LAD Dissertation Prize Goes to Jennifer Bergner
The AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division is pleased to announce the recipient of its 2021 Dissertation Prize, Jennifer Bergner (@UChicago), for her PhD thesis Tracing Organic Complexity During Star and Planet Formation! The Laboratory Astrophysics...
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The evolving chemistry of protoplanetary disks
Planets form from the gas and dust in disks that surround young stars. Chemicals in the disk that evaporate easily, called volatiles, include important molecules like water, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, as well as other simple organic molecules. The amount...
An artist's conception of a planet-forming, circumstellar disk around a young star.

ALMA Captures Stirred-Up Planet Factory
In recent years, high resolution observations of dust structures have revolutionized our understanding of planet formation. However, this new image of the gas indicates that the current view of planet formation is still too simplistic and that it might be...
ALMA image of the planet-forming disk around the young star RU Lup.

Formalde-hyde and Seek
Title: An ALMA Survey of H2CO in Protoplanetary Disks Authors: Jamila Pegues, Karin Oberg, J. Bergner et al. First Author Institution: Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Open access arXiv closed access on ApJ Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV...
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Professor Karin Öberg Named 2020 Simons Investigator Recipient
Karin Öberg, Professor of Astronomy , has been named a 2020 Simons Investigator recipient for her work on the role of chemistry during planet formation. She combines theory, astronomical observations and experiments to explore the chemical environments...