The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is a long-running series of sky surveys, now focused on optical and infrared spectroscopy of the full sky. Harvard and Smithsonian are both full institutional...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) consortium will conduct a massive redshift survey to map the large-scale structure of the Universe over one-third of the sky and 11 billion...

AbacusSummit was performed with the Abacus code on the Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) using time from the ALCC program.  AbacusSummit prov...

JADES is a collaboration of the JWST Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument teams and will comprise about 800 hours of observing time, with full...

Science Goals The H3 Survey will unravel the assembly history of the Galaxy by addressing the following key science questions:

Sheperd (Shep) Doeleman, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has been named the recipient of the National Academy of Sciences' 2021 Henry Draper ...

Quasars are perhaps the best-known kinds of active galactic nuclei (AGN), galaxies whose central supermassive black holes are luminous, sometimes brighter than the rest of the galaxy. In ...

Sunspots were first seen by Galileo, and in the eighteenth century Rudolf Wolf concluded from his study of previous observations that there was a roughly eleven-year solar cycle of activi...