The Harvard College Observatory will be open to members of the present Senior Class of Harvard College, and to the graduating class of the Lawrence Scientific School on the evenings of June 12 ...

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

The Galileo Project has released the commissioning data from its first Observatory at Harvard University in a new scientific ...

Many of these telescopes, cameras, radiometers, spectrometers and spectrographs have been built, and others are being built by astronomers at the Harvard College Observatory and the closely ...

More than 40 years before women gained the right to vote, female "computers" at Harvard College Observatory were making major astronomical discoveries. Between 1885 and 1927, the observatory ...

She hadn't forgotten about astronomy, though. She volunteered at the Harvard College Observatory in 1895. Seven years later she was appointed to the permanent staff (at a salary of 30 cents an ...

Henrietta Leavitt joined the Harvard College Observatory as a volunteer in 1895. She was appointed to the permanent staff in 1902, and eventually became chief of the photometry department.