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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …