GMACS is being developed for the entire Giant Magellan Telescope community by scientists and engineers at the Center for Astrophysics and at the Steiner Institute in Sao Paulo Brazil.&nbs...

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GMACS - Moderate Dispersion Optical Spectrograph GMACS is being developed for the entire Giant Magellan Telescope community by scientists and engineers at the Center for Astrophysics and...

Cambridge, MA -- Lisa J. Kewley has been named the Director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA), effective July 1, 2022. A world leader in the theoretical mod...

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