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Risaliti—who is also a visiting astrophysicist at the CFA??and his colleagues decided to delve deeper into the periodic eclipses of the NGC 1365 quasar’s emissions. Such eclipses are caused by clouds of gas that drift around the black hole, occasionally blocking X-ray radiation from reaching the earth...
...planet to live on,” Charbonneau said. With two planetary discoveries published within a week of each other, and a handful detected in previous years, the CfA is positioning itself at the forefront of the search for planets outside our solar system. According to Stephen S. Murray, CfA??s deputy director for science, the center is also involved in NASA’s Kepler Mission, which will send a telescope to search for habitable planets. TrES-2 is in the same region that Kepler will peruse. O’Donovan wrote that a series of disappointments...
Alcock said that despite the fact that CFA??s other telescopes are farther away, astronomers “can collect so much high quality data so quickly that geographic inconveniences are worth overcoming...
Stefanik said that without the CFA??s support, all educational activities involving the telescope at Oak Ridge—which included visits by students from a variety of universities and high schools—would cease. Alcock said that while some small projects—including a search for extraterrestrial life project and a seismic station, would continue at Oak Ridge—the site’s future is unclear...
Narayanamurti and Hernquist both pointed to several initiatives currently underway in the CfA??particularly discussions for Harvard’s participation in the construction of a new giant Magellan telescope—as examples of the direction in which the field is heading...