Aug
27
2014
Aug
27
2014
Aug
14
2014
Wendy Freedman Departs; John Mulchaey Becomes Acting Director of the Observatories
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Wendy Freedman, the Crawford H.
Aug
04
2014
Planet-like object may have spent its youth as hot as a star
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Washington, D.C.—Astronomers have discovered an extremely cool object that could have a particularly diverse history—although it is now as cool as a planet, it may have spent much of its youth as hot as a star.
Jul
08
2014
Cosmic Accounting Reveals Missing Light Crisis
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Pasadena, CA—Something is amiss in the Universe. There appears to be an enormous deficit of ultraviolet light in the cosmic budget.
Jun
03
2014
Two planets orbit nearby ancient star
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May
21
2014
New technique reveals supernova progenitor
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Pasadena, CA—Wolf-Rayet stars are very large and very hot. Astronomers have long wondered whether Wolf-Rayet stars are the progenitors of certain types of supernovae.
May
21
2014
Very Distant Galaxy Cluster Confirmed
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May
01
2014
Nearby galaxy is a “fossil” from the early universe
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Pasadena, CA— New work from a team of scientists including Carnegie’s Josh Simon analyzed the chemical elements in the faintest known galaxy, called Segue 1, and determined that it is effectively a fossil galaxy left over from the early universe.
Apr
30
2014
Carnegie’s Stephen Shectman Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
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Pasadena, CA— Astronomer and instrumentation expert Stephen Shectman of the Carnegie Observatories has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
