SmithsonianObs (SAO)

🌟 Ever consider a career in astronomy?🌟 Smithsonian @saoastro scientist @kimberlykowal explains how she translates bits and bytes into pictures of the stars and stories of the cosmos at youtu.be/5FjHLjYOJ_s #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2020 #BecauseOfHerStory

Follow us on our journey to ask, test, and answer the greatest questions about the nature of the universe on our new account: @CenterForAstro

Have you been wanting to learn more about TEMPO straight from our principal investigator @KellyChance1? Well now you can! Tune in to the @CenterForAstro Observatory Night live stream at 7:30pm Eastern tonight: youtube.com/watch?v=4vWMVB…

@NMAAHC @SmithsonianSec @airandspace "This didn't happen overnight."—@SmithsonianSec on the years-long effort to capture an image of a black hole 55 million light-years away with @ehtelescope. Seeing a black hole put Einstein's theory of general relativity to the test in extreme gravity.

"As with all great discoveries, the first black hole image was just the beginning." Congratulations to the @ehtelescope team on the announcement of ngEHT! cfa.harvard.edu/news/2019-22

Missed yesterday's Public Observatory Night on the AIR-Spec mission? You can watch it here: youtu.be/-ChJoc372gU

Learn more about the event series here: cfa.harvard.edu/publicevents

Join us this Thursday for the start of our Public Observatory Nights fall season!

Launched aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in 1999, @chandraxray has been illuminating the universe around us for 20 years. Thank you to @saoastro's @belindawilkes, @astro_cady and @NASA for celebrating with us. Keep pushing the boundaries of human knowledge higher and further.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the first person to earn a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College (now Harvard) and later became Chair of the Harvard Astronomy Dept. Her 1925 thesis proposed that stars were made from hydrogen and helium, contrary to theory at the time. #WomenInSTEM

Harvard researchers talk about working and living at one of the most remote places on Earth: The South Pole hrvd.me/southpole3345t

For us, the Smithsonian means researching everything from the smallest particles to the structure and evolution of the Universe. It means taking pictures of black holes and searching for life outside of our solar system.

The team of scientists who captured the first-ever photo of a black hole back in April will be pocketing $3 million after winning the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics cnn.it/2zTxW9N

Congratulations to the @ehtelescope collaboration on receiving the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics! #EHT cfa.harvard.edu/news/2019-21

We’re pleased to announce that the @ehtelescope collaboration has won the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Congratulations to the entire team, across 60 institutions and 20 countries. breakthroughprize.org/News/54 youtu.be/3QEPzP58neg

#Harvard Observatory in Cambridge, MA c. 1890s. Photo from the Harvard Archives. Look at all those telescope domes! #astronomy #space #history #science

Happy 1st birthday, #ParkerSolarProbe! 🎂☀️🛰 Since launch one year ago, it's sent back a host of groundbreaking scientific data from the Sun. Reflect on the mission so far: go.nasa.gov/2YCWXoy 📹 The WISPR instrument saw solar wind flowing by the spacecraft in Nov. 2018.

How do you wrap your brain around 93 million miles? This week's #wgbhrewind with @wgbharchives rolls back to 1957, when big-time astronomer Bart Bok broke down complex science for the everyday viewer on "Of Science and Scientists." to.wgbh.org/6019EaIEF

A dusty shroud around a far-off planet may represent the humble beginnings of a brand-new moon! nationalgeographic.co.uk/space201907ali…

CfA Director Charles Alcock and Associate Mariclaire O’Neill were caught enjoying last week’s total solar eclipse from the Atacama Desert in Chile.