The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, founded in 1890, is a research center of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1955, the observatory moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and became affiliated with ...

The data collected by Harvard College Observatory in Arequipa in the late 19th to early 20th century, is foundational in the study of astronomy and has furthered our understanding of the cosmos. But ...

Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin spent nearly a year in “utter bewilderment” after arriving at the Harvard College Observatory in the early 1920s. She often worked into the late evening and ...

PROF. EDWARD C. PICKERING has presented to the Visiting Committee the forty-fourth Annual Report of the Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. The following are the more ...

We did it. I led a Galileo Project expedition to the Pacific Ocean to retrieve spherules of the first recognized interstellar meteor, IM1, and brought back to Harvard College Observatory more than ...

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard College Observatory, studies basic ...

A popular Reddit thread posted in mid-March 2025 claimed a 19th-century housekeeper named Williamina Fleming became an astronomer when the director of the Harvard Observatory got frustrated with ...

Harvard University was originally founded by a vote by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on Oct. 28, 1636, less than 20 years after the Pilgrims first landed in ...

The data collected by Harvard College Observatory in Arequipa in the late 19th to early 20th century, is foundational in the study of astronomy and has furthered our understanding of the cosmos ...

WE must congratulate the authorities of Harvard College on the publication of the Annals of the Observatory. The volume is the result of a large portion of the work of the institution during the ...