Results for "Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Telescope Data Center"
Queue the Quadrangle - South Mall Transformation
- Date: November 20, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A look at the Quadrangle complex of the Smithsonian that encompasses the Enid Haupt Garden, the National Museum of African Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon III
- Date: March 17, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Cue the music! We invite you to our third "She Blinded Me with Science" Women in Science Wikipdia Edit-a-thon III. An invitation to the Archive's 3rd Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Women in Science, March 27, 2015.
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
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
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.”
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Margaret Geller
- Date: March 28, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Astrophysicist Dr. Margaret J. Geller, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is a pioneer in mapping the nearby universe who provided a new view of the enormous patterns in the distribution of galaxies like the Milky Way. #Groundbreaker
Smithsonian Optimism for the Blue Planet
- Date: April 27, 2017
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: An overview of the history of environmental conservation activities at the Smithsonian, since its founding in 1846.
- Blog Post
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Mercedes López-Morales
- Date: December 5, 2018
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Dr. Mercedes López-Morales has been an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics since 2012. She researches the detection and characterization of exoplanet atmospheres and serves as a leader on multiple international projects. #Groundbreaker
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2019
- Date: March 26, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: We highlight a few topics explored by SIA researchers this winter.
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Science Service, Up Close: Up in the Air for a Solar Eclipse
- Date: January 24, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.
- Blog Post
Mapping the Moon
- Date: May 19, 2009
- Description: Though photographs are accepted as subjective but ultimately faithful visual reproductions of reality, in many instances they don’t correspond to our experience. Pupils don’t regularly glint red, and people don’t transform into the streaked, evanescent smears we so often witness in photos. Yet we have no trouble accepting these inconsistencies, knowing that taking a picture of
Link Love: 4/12/2019
- Date: April 12, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.