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The dust and gas where planets form have been mapped in extraordinary detail around five nearby young stars—and astronomers have found organic molecules that are implicated in the emergence of life on Earth. The findings suggest that the basic chemical...

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...

Delayed for more than a decade, the world’s next flagship space telescope will launch in December, giving scientists an unprecedented view of chemistry around the galaxy JWST will provide scientists with new ways to study gas-phase molecules in...

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...

Nature Astronomy volume 3, page959(2019) Luca Maltagliati We still have very limited knowledge of the elemental composition of giant planets. Our best example is currently Jupiter, thanks to Galileo’s end-of-mission plunge into its atmosphere...

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...

New York Times ...two astronomers have found what they call “a surprisingly simple explanation” for Oumuamua’s behavior: The object was a comet after all, propelled by minuscule amounts of hydrogen gas spurting from an icy core. “We show that this...

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...

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...