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 ...

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 ...

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 ...