Results for "Astronomy"

     
    Showing results 13 - 24 of 727 for Astronomy
    1. Blog Post

      Pickering’s Women?

      • Date: May 8, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

    2.  
    3. Webpage

      Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

      • Date: April 14, 2011
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

    4.  
    5. Blog Post

      Picturing Infinity: The Hubble Telescope’s Universal View

      • Date: May 11, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_827" align="aligncenter" width="242" caption="Spacecraft Hubble: Hubble in Flight, 2007, NASA"][/caption] Throughout May and June, we are inviting people throughout the Smithsonian to talk about photography and astronomy. Welcome Joseph Caputo, intern at the Smithsonian Magazine. In April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was dropped off 353 miles above

    6.  

    7. Introducing the Science Media Group YouTube Playlist

      • Date: June 29, 2021
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives YouTube channel has a new dedicated playlist for the Science Media Group Collection, which features videos from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory program that was active from 1989 to 2013.

    8.  
    9. Historic Pictures

      Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

      • Date: April 18, 2011
      • Description: Established in 1890, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory was one of the earliest observatories to practice the "new astronomy," or astrophysics. Originally located behind the Smithsonian Institution Building, the Castle, in 1955, the Observatory moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Today, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has observing stations in Arizona,

    10.  
    11. Finding Aid

      SIA Acc. 13-176, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Website Records, 2012

      • Date: 2012
      • Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

    12.  
    13. Finding Aid

      SIA Acc. 15-259, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Website Records, 2015

      • Date: 2015
      • Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

    14.  
    15. SI History Bibliography

      Fred Whipple's Empire: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955-1973

      • Date: 2018
      • Creator: DeVorkin, David H
      • Creator: DeVorkin, David H

    16.  
    17. David Sutphin Heeschen (1926-2012)

      David Sutphin Heeschen (1926-2012)

      • Date: 1965 10/1965
      • Creator: National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.)

    18.  
    19. Collection

      George B. Field Papers, c. 1955-2004

      • Date: 1955 1955-2004 c 1955-2004
      • Creator: Field, George B. 1929-

    20.  
    21. Dan Kimball adjusting the telescope at the Maria Mitchell Observatory prior to the eclipse.

      Lasting Consequences from Past Solar Eclipses

      • Date: August 22, 2017
      • Description: Solar eclipse trips can have lasting effects on an astronomy student’s life, as NASM’s David DeVorkin tells us about the 1970 Yale Observatory expedition and beach party to view an eclipse at Nantucket.

    22.  
    23. Finding Aid

      SIA Acc. 16-376, DeVorkin, David H. 1944-, David H. DeVorkin Papers, 1889-2011

      • Date: 1889 1889-2011
      • Creator: DeVorkin, David H., 1944-
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

    24.  
    Showing results 13 - 24 of 727 for Astronomy

    Pages