The Harvard College Observatory will issue this summer a new series of nine popular books covering the principal areas of astronomy, it was announced today by Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of ...

An astronomer and a photographer captured the first photograph of star 175 years ago on July 17, 1850. This image of Vega in the sky over Harvard is the first known photograph of a star other than our ...

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 ...

RPI’s Heidi Newberg — from the department of physics, applied physics, and astronomy — will review “The Glass Universe: How The Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars” by Dava ...

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 ...