Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women who processed astronomical data at the university.

Smithsonian National Zoo In 1890, our grand ambitions ... The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) would eventually move to Massachusetts, joining the Harvard College Observatory to form ...

“A ‘videodisc’ system that presents recorded pictures and sound on a television ... director of the Harvard College Observatory, this proves the theory that they are ‘island universes ...

Since 1973, SAO has been a partner with Harvard University in the ... Thanks to the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, for example, we can hold in our hands images the size, shape and color of ordinary ...

Young Professor of Astronomy on ... mother a schoolteacher. At Harvard, where he earned an A.B. in physics and chemistry, he also studied art, history and literature. He and his wife, Alicia, an ...

Jasmine Eyal, Age 16, of Singapore, Receives Top Honors and $400,000 in Education Prizes for her Original Video Explaining Mechanogenetic Cel ...

In 1892, Cannon travelled throughout Europe taking photos with ... teacher at Wellesley College. The following year, while still teaching, Cannon enrolled as a “special student” of astronomy at ...

These glass plates recorded images of the night sky using a light-sensitive ... discovery made by Henrietta Swan Leavitt 10 years earlier. She worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a “human ...