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 ...

In 1839, the president of Harvard University invited William Bond to move into a house on campus and, by virtue of bringing along his own astronomical equipment, become the university's first ...

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 ...

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

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has received a potential 12-year, $563.5M contract extension to help NASA manage a space observatory built to detect X-ray emissions from outer space.