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      See Here: 5/30/2011

      • Date: May 30, 2011
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Under a banner for Operation Moonwatch, people are lined up at the entrance to a Satellite Demonstration set up in Biloxi, Mississippi, The Moonwatch Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory was created in 1956 as part of the Satellite Tracking Program and established to track and photograph the artificial

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      In Memoriam: Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

      • Date: December 17, 2018
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives remembers Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

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      Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley

      • Date: November 28, 2017
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the

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      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2022

      • Date: July 21, 2022
      • Description: We're highlighting a few topics explored by Smithsonian Institution Archives researchers this summer.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Kimberly Arcand

      • Date: January 4, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: In honor of the 2016 Smithsonian Education Award recipient, Kimberly Arcand. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory visualization lead, Kimberly Arcand, makes astrophysics more accessible with coding programs for girls and boys using NASA data, and cutting-edge Chandra data visualization projects such as data-based 3D printed supernova remnants. #Groundbreaker

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      Are You Arty or Hearty?

      • Date: May 19, 2011
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: “Are you arty or hearty?” As family legend has it, this hilarious question was asked of one of our family’s old friends upon his arrival at Jesus College, Oxford University in 1932 as a Rhodes Scholar. Well, as the story goes, it turns out that he was hearty and intellectually gifted (physics). And, the same can be said of lots of Smithsonian employees.

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      Celebrating the Smithsonian Centennial

      • Date: July 20, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: In August 1996, the Smithsonian marked its 150th anniversary with a huge birthday celebration on the National Mall. For its sesquicentennial, a term which this author constantly forgets no matter how many times she looks it up, the Institution threw itself a two-day birthday party, sprinkled with special exhibit tents, concerts, nineteen birthday cakes, a special website, and

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    15. Smithsonian Crowdsourcing Since 1849!

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

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      Volunteer Spotlight: Julie Goforth

      • Date: April 7, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Get to know Archives volunteer Julie Goforth.

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      Wish You Were Here?

      • Date: December 1, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_3071" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Spiral Galaxy Messier 81 (M81), 2003, Spitzer Space Telescope / IRAC, NASA / JPL-Caltech / S. Willner, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA"][/caption] You may in fact be, or just feel like, a big shot down here on earth. But, ever since airborne cameras started to photograph our little planet from above, and once they

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      The Smithsonian Secretaries: That Tall Man from New York, Part II

      • Date: April 28, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The 1846 legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution provided for a Secretary, appointed by the Board of Regents, who would run the day-to-day affairs of the Institution. When David Skorton became Secretary last year, he was the thirteenth person to take on that responsibility. In our last blog, we discussed the first six and now we’ll look at seven through

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    23. The World Is Yours: Stars in the Sky

      • Date: July 15, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from a The World Is Yours episode, “Stars in the Sky.”

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