From its establishment in 1966 as the Smithsonian Mount Hopkins Observatory, FLWO has hosted a world-class suite of telescopes designed for a wide variety of purposes. The largest visible-light ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) consortium is conducting a five-year survey to map the large-scale structure of the Universe over one-third of the sky and 11 billion years of cosmic ...

How can we expand the limits of human knowledge further into the unknown? The Center for Astrophysics is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Harvard College ...

JADES will use guaranteed time in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cycle 1 to produce infrared imaging and spectroscopy of unprecedented depth in the two premier extragalactic deep fields, ...

The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian manages or helps to manage a number of major observatories around the world. As part of this process, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO ...

The Greenland Telescope is an innovative research project that will help scientists explore some of the Universe's deepest mysteries, including the use of black holes to study gravity in conditions ...

The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO), part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, is a major observatory based in Mount Hopkins, Arizona. Alongside its status as an active ...

April (Meteor) Showers and See a City of Stars! Enjoy observing planets in the morning and evening sky, look for Lyrid meteors, and hunt for the "faint fuzzy" wonder that is the distant and ancient ...

The Center for Astrophysics (CfA) provides world-class opportunities for academic training and career development in astrophysics. It is home to the Harvard University Department of Astronomy, which ...

The Galileo Project for the Systematic Scientific Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts ...

The Science Research Mentoring Program (SRMP) at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) provides an opportunity for students from Cambridge Rindge & Latin School to work on a ...

Founded in 1973, the Center for Astrophysics I Harvard & Smithsonian is an ongoing collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory designed to ask ...