http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/CfA Press Releasesen-us http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200922.htmlNovember 16, 2009: The constellation of Orion is a hotbed of massive star formation, most prominently in the Great Nebula that sits in Orion's sword. The glowing gas of the Nebula is powered by a group of young massive stars, but behind it is a cluster of younger stars and clumps of gas. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200921.htmlNovember 02, 2009: Nearly 100 years ago, scientists detected the first signs of cosmic rays - subatomic particles (mostly protons) that zip through space at nearly the speed of light. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200920.htmlSeptember 09, 2009: The simple picture of star formation calls for giant clouds of gas and dust to collapse inward due to gravity, growing denser and hotter until igniting nuclear fusion. In reality, forces other than gravity also influence the birth of stars. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200919.htmlAugust 25, 2009: Finding a comet can be a quick way to get some immortal fame -- and a little spending money, as well. An annual award of several thousand dollars for discoveries of comets by amateur astronomers has just been announced for five individuals in five different countries. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200918.htmlAugust 05, 2009: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has taken its first shots of the cosmos since warming up and starting its second career. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200917.htmlJuly 29, 2009: A study published this week in the journal Nature offers an explanation for the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. The research may settle an outstanding puzzle in understanding galaxy formation. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200916.htmlJuly 23, 2009: Ten years ago, on July 23, 1999, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia and deployed into orbit. Chandra has doubled its original five-year mission, ushering in an unprecedented decade of discovery for the high-energy universe. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200915.htmlJune 17, 2009: On Sunday, June 21, 2009, a new exhibit developed by educators and scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) will open at the Boston Museum of Science. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200914.htmlJune 10, 2009: In November 2008, Caroline Moore, a 14-year-old student from upstate New York, discovered a supernova in a nearby galaxy, making her the youngest person ever to do so. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200913.htmlJune 10, 2009: Astronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA) clearly reveals the presence of a rotating molecular disk orbiting the young binary star system V4046 Sagittarii. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200912.htmlApril 29, 2009: It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200911.htmlApril 28, 2009: Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, along with colleagues in the United States and the United Kingdom, have discovered the most distant object in the universe -- a spectacular stellar explosion known as a gamma-ray burst located about 13 billion light years away. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200910.htmlMarch 31, 2009: The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) will have three of its facilities featured in a live 24-hour video webcast called "Around the World in 80 Telescopes." http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200909.htmlMarch 19, 2009: Does a twin Earth exist somewhere in our galaxy? Astronomers are getting closer and closer to finding an Earth-sized planet in an Earth-like orbit. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200908.htmlMarch 16, 2009: A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two merging galaxies, each powered by a black hole with millions of times the mass of the sun.