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97 Harvard College Observatory Images and Stock Photos

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Buildings at the Harvard University astronomical observatory house telescopes pointed toward the sky at several angles. Ca. 1891.

Harvard Observatory Complex

Annie J. Cannon, curator of photographs at the Harvard College Observatory, is charged with the care of 300,000 photographic plates of stars made by...

Harvard Astronomer Annie J. Cannon at Work

The observer's platform at the Harvard College Observatory in Harvard, Mass., on Oct. 22, 1933.

Harvard University In 1933

From right, Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory; Bob Hazard, superintendent of the construction site; and H E Hansen,...

Harvard University In 1933

Professor A.E. Kennelly presents Professor Harlow Shapely with the Rumford Medal. Shapely, the head of Harvard University Observatory, is being...

Professor Harlow Shapely Receiving Rumford Medal

Atmospheric Physicist at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Caroline Nowlan speaks during a news briefing on NASA’s TEMPO instrument...

NASA Holds A Briefing On New Pollution Monitoring Instrument

Dr. Fred Whipple uses a 500 pound snowball covered with dirt in his Harvard classroom to demonstrate the anatomy of a comet's nucleus. | Location:...

Demonstrating How Comets Resemble "Dirty Snowballs"

Transit instrument of the Harvard college Observatory at Cambridge Massachusetts, made by Mr Herbst.

Transit circle, 1876.

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing ten sketches of solar prominences. Drawn in 1872 by Etienne Leopold...

Solar prominences, Plate 8, 1872.

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing two sketches of solar prominences. Drawn in 1872 by Etienne Leopold...

Solar prominences, Plate 9, 1872.

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing four sketches of craters on the Moon . Produced in 1872 by Etienne...

Moon craters, 1872.

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing four sketches of the planet Jupiter. Produced in 1872 by Etienne...

Four views of Jupiter, plate 2, 1872.

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing the solar photosphere, the visible surface of the Sun. Based on...

Four views of Sunspots, 1872.

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing the corona around the Sun during a solar eclipse. The pearly and...

Total eclipse of the Sun, 2 December 1870.

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing the solar photosphere, the visible surface of the Sun. Based on...

Two views of the Sun, 1872.

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing the solar photosphere, the visible surface of the Sun. Based on...

Two views of the Sun, 1872.

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing the solar photosphere, the visible surface of the Sun. Based on...

Four views of the Sun, 1871.

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing the solar photosphere, the visible surface of the Sun. Based on...

�Successive views of a Sunspot�, 1872.

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing the corona around the Sun during a solar eclipse. The pearly and...

Eclipse of the Sun, 7 August 1869.

Photograph of the Horsehead Nebula, just discernible as a dark shadow in the centre of the picture. Also known as Barnard 33, the Horsehead Nebula is...

The Horsehead Nebula, late 20th century.

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing the solar photosphere, the visible surface of the Sun. Based on...

Four views of the Sun and Sunspots, 1872.

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing three sketches of craters on the Moon . Produced in 1872 by Etienne...

Moon craters, 1872.

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing four sketches of the planet Jupiter. Produced in 1872 by Etienne...

Four views of Jupiter, 1872.

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing nine sketches of solar prominences. Drawn in 1872 by Etienne Leopold...

Solar prominences, Plate 10, 1872.

William Cranch Bond , American astronomer born in Falmouth , Maine. First director of Harvard University Observatory . He independently discovered...

William Cranch Bond

View of the telescope within the Harvard Observatory, ca.1900s.

Harvard Observatory

Fund Drive Under Way Harvey Willson, right, vice chancellor of the University of Denver, and Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College...

Denver Post Archives

Les savants Paulhus, de l'office météorologique américain, et Lange, de l'observatoire rattaché à l'université de Harvard, lancent un ballon-sonde...

Lancement d'une sonde-ballon à des fins aéronautiques

Curator of Astronomical Photographs Lindsay Smith displays fly spankers, used by women computers to list the magnitude of stars, at the Harvard...

"Women Computers" At Harvard College Observatory

Curator of Astronomical Photographs Lindsay Smith examines 4x5 glass plates negative of Saturn from the archives at the Harvard Smithsonian Center...

"Women Computers" At Harvard College Observatory

Curator of Astronomical Photographs Lindsay Smith displays glass plates from the archives at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in...

"Women Computers" At Harvard College Observatory

Photographs of Computers Henrietta Leavitt, center, and Williamina Fleming, top left, hang in the Plate Stacks office at the Harvard Smithsonian...

"Women Computers" At Harvard College Observatory

Curator of Astronomical Photographs Lindsay Smith displays a 1934 glass galaxy count plate negative at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for...

"Women Computers" At Harvard College Observatory

Photograph of Computers at the Harvard College Observatory hangs in the Plate Stacks at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge,...

"Women Computers" At Harvard College Observatory

American astronomer and director of Harvard College Observatory, Harlow Shapley on left, hands a piece of Uranium ore to United States Senator from...

Atomic Energy Hearing

Man stands at one of the patrol cameras at the new $75,000 telescope at the Harvard College Observatory in Harvard, Mass., on Oct. 22, 1933.

Harvard University In 1933

The base of the 73-inch telescope, being moved into the Harvard College Observatory in Harvard, Mass., on Oct. 16, 1933.

Harvard University In 1933

Annie Cannon the American astronomer. She worked at the Harvard College Observatory and developed the definitive Harvard system of spectral...

David Weaver, Electrical Engineer, Harvard-Smithsonion Center for Astrophysics, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, conducts a thermal test while...

Giant Magellan Telescope Parts

Dr. Fred Whipple uses a 500 pound snowball covered with dirt in his Harvard classroom to demonstrate the anatomy of a comet's nucleus. | Location:...

Demonstrating How Comets Resemble "Dirty Snowballs"

Dr. Fred Whipple uses a 500 pound snowball covered with dirt in his Harvard classroom to demonstrate the anatomy of a comet's nucleus. | Location:...

Demonstrating How Comets Resemble "Dirty Snowballs"

Astronomer Dr. Donald H. Menzel, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, waits to view a total solar eclipse in the Mauritania desert.

Astronomer Waiting to View Eclipse

Dr. Donald H. Menzel, Director of Harvard College Observatory, records the events of the twelfth day at a campsite set up in Mauritania to view a...

Scientist Writing in Journal

Ann Druyan, Producer, Co-Founder and CEO of Cosmos Studios; Zac Manchester, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University; Yuri Milner, Breakthrough Prize...

New Space Exploration Initiative "Breakthrough Starshot" Announcement

Ann Druyan, Producer, Co-Founder and CEO of Cosmos Studios; Zac Manchester, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University; Yuri Milner, Breakthrough Prize...

New Space Exploration Initiative "Breakthrough Starshot" Announcement

Avi Loeb, Chairman, Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University attends the New Space...

New Space Exploration Initiative "Breakthrough Starshot" Announcement

Avi Loeb, Chairman, Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University and former NASA...

New Space Exploration Initiative "Breakthrough Starshot" Announcement

Avi Loeb, Chairman, Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University attends the New Space...

New Space Exploration Initiative "Breakthrough Starshot" Announcement

Avi Loeb, Chairman, Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University attends the New Space...

New Space Exploration Initiative "Breakthrough Starshot" Announcement

Avi Loeb, Chairman, Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University attends the New Space...

New Space Exploration Initiative "Breakthrough Starshot" Announcement

Avi Loeb, Chairman, Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University attends the New Space...

New Space Exploration Initiative "Breakthrough Starshot" Announcement

Yuri Milner, Breakthrough Prize and DST Global Founder; Stephen Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of...

Yuri Milner And Stephen Hawking Announce Breakthrough Starshot, A New Space Exploration Initiative

Freeman Dyson, Emeritus Professor, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study; Ann Druyan, Producer, Co-Founder and CEO of Cosmos Studios; Avi Loeb,...

Yuri Milner And Stephen Hawking Announce Breakthrough Starshot, A New Space Exploration Initiative

Yuri Milner, Breakthrough Prize and DST Global Founder; Stephen Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of...

Yuri Milner And Stephen Hawking Announce Breakthrough Starshot, A New Space Exploration Initiative

Avi Loeb, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University speaks on stage as Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking host press conference to...

Yuri Milner And Stephen Hawking Announce Breakthrough Starshot, A New Space Exploration Initiative

Avi Loeb, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University speaks on stage as Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking host press conference to...

Yuri Milner And Stephen Hawking Announce Breakthrough Starshot, A New Space Exploration Initiative

Avi Loeb, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University speaks on stage as Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking host press conference to...

Yuri Milner And Stephen Hawking Announce Breakthrough Starshot, A New Space Exploration Initiative

Avi Loeb, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University speaks on stage as Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking host press conference to...

Yuri Milner And Stephen Hawking Announce Breakthrough Starshot, A New Space Exploration Initiative

Freeman Dyson, Emeritus Professor, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study; Ann Druyan, Producer, Co-Founder and CEO of Cosmos Studios; Avi Loeb,...

Yuri Milner And Stephen Hawking Announce Breakthrough Starshot, A New Space Exploration Initiative

Freeman Dyson, Emeritus Professor, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study; Ann Druyan, Producer, Co-Founder and CEO of Cosmos Studios; Avi Loeb,...

Yuri Milner And Stephen Hawking Announce Breakthrough Starshot, A New Space Exploration Initiative