About Harvard College Observatory
Today at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian headquarters in Cambridge, this telescope is still on display, used only for an occasional student or special research project. It stands as an incredible example of 19th century scientific, …
Telescopes | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian operate many optical telescopes, including the MMT in Arizona and the twin Magellan Telescopes in Chile. Each of these instruments is based on a mirror 6.5 meters (21 feet) across.
About Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory - Harvard University
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. SAO was founded in 1890 under Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Pierpont Langley as a research bureau of the Smithsonian Institution.
The Greenland Telescope | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard
The Greenland Telescope is a submillimeter telescope 12 meters (39 feet) in diameter that was originally constructed as a prototype for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile.
About The Great Refractor | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard
This 15-inch telescope known as "The Great Refractor" was installed at Cambridge in 1847. For 20 years it was the largest telescope in the United States, the most significant American astronomical instrument and equal to the finest in the world.
Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard ...
Founded by Shep Doeleman at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) captured the first image ever taken of a black hole: specifically, the ring of light produced by matter just as it falls into the black …
Event Horizon Telescope Makes Highest-Resolution ... - Harvard …
Aug 27, 2024 — The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has conducted test observations achieving the highest resolution ever obtained from the surface of the Earth, by detecting light from the centers of distant galaxies at a frequency of around 345 GHz.
Einstein Observatory | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard
The Einstein Observatory was the second X-ray telescope that could focus X-rays, following a solar X-ray telescope on the Skylab space station, and the first designed for observing sources beyond the Solar System.
WorldWide Telescope (WWT) | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a free, open-source tool for exploring our knowledge of the universe. It provides planetarium-like views of the sky, as well as dynamic images of planets and other astronomical objects.
Spitzer Space Telescope | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard
Led by researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, this survey used NASA’s Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope to identify and track the course of star formation in Cygnus-X in multiple wavelengths of infrared light.