Dozens of students gathered at Harvard’s Loomis-Michael Observatory on Thursday and Friday for a rare viewing of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, a comet visible to the naked eye that researchers say is ...
Fred Whipple's Empire explores the forces and drives that brought two astronomical institutions together-the Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and the Harvard ...
Harvard University hired its first astronomer in 1839. Public interest in astronomy increased after comet sightings. Harvard Observatory obtained a large telescope and took the first-ever photo of a ...
The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring researchers today Elizabeth Landau - Contributing Writer Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin ...
Charles R. Alcock is appointed director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Previously Dr. Alcock was the ...
Henrietta Swan Leavitt, an American astronomer whose groundbreaking discovery revolutionized how we measure the cosmos. Born in 1868, Leavitt began working at the Harvard College Observatory at a time ...
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