
@Harvard & @Smithsonian collaboration to ask — and ultimately answer — humanity’s greatest questions about the nature of the universe.
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Our inaugural @CenterForAstro Science Meeting wrapped up yesterday, with more than 100 talks and posters and 240 registered participants! Thank you to all who made it possible!
📸 Aidan Lillienfeld/Christine Buckley
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"What took Hubble years to record will take Roman around 100 hours."
The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope launches on Aug. 30, 2026. Learn more about how it will change astronomy in our Q&A with our astronomer Christina Lindberg: s.si.edu/4qK5gJ6 📸 @NASA
We've launched a new interactive web app for use during the solar eclipse! Learn how long the eclipse will last along different locations in the path of totality. Access the app here! s.si.edu/4g6uufRLearn
📸 NASA/GRC/Jordan Salkin
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✨ Join Dr. Suze Kundu on a trip to explore the London Starstruck experience!
Smithsonian Starstruck: An Immersive Experience is a 3D interactive, virtual reality experience that uses our Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory data to create a breathtaking journey through space.
Thank you @SpaceAbhi, Senior Advisor to @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman, and NASA Astrophysics leadership for visiting our @chandraxray Control Center today to discuss our growing partnership in exploring the universe! @NASAScience
A founding gift in memory of Rev. Barbara Hebner will launch the Smithsonian Scientists Taking Astronomy to Rural Schools (STARS) program to serve rural communities across Delaware.
Read more: s.si.edu/4xePcRG
✨ In a major astronomy milestone, scientists have detected the first atmosphere on a habitable-zone rocky world. It's the strongest evidence yet for other planets that could support life. Learn more: s.si.edu/4pqnSxb
✨ Don't space out. Come follow us on Instagram for your favorite space images and astro breakthroughs.
instagram.com/centerforastro
Meet Heather Williams, SAO's first Chief Operating Officer! cfa.harvard.edu/news/heather…
1/2: Congrats to @ShepDoeleman for being awarded the Georges Lemaître International Prize! The award is named after the father of the Big Bang theory, and was presented to Shep because of his pivotal role in capturing the first image of a supermassive black hole in 2019.
2/2: Shep was presented with the award on World Big Bang Day by Belgium's Secretary of State for Recovery & Strategic Investments and the rector of the Catholic University of Louvain.
Photograph © Brigitte Lacombe for the Breakthrough Prize
Learn more: s.si.edu/3KRlDPu
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LIFTOFF FOR TEMPO! Congratulations to the @TEMPO_Mission team for a successful launch this Friday morning. 🚀
#TEMPO
The Sun has set here in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Less than 5 hours until @Intelsat 40E blasts off from Launch Complex 40, carrying our @TEMPO_Mission payload with it! Who’s watching with us at midnight?
—> NASA.gov/live
#TEMPO
Our @TEMPO_Mission instrument is packed up and READY FOR LAUNCH. T-minus 8 hours (or so) until liftoff!
#TEMPO
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The @TEMPO_Mission crew, which includes members of @NASA_Langley and @CenterforAstro, has begun to gather in Cape Canaveral, Florida!
Let the countdown clocks begin! ⌛🚀
LIVE NOW: @NASA is hosting a Media Teleconference to share updates about the upcoming launch of the @TEMPO_Mission. Tune in to listen at nasa.gov/nasalive
Our scientists are at the @NASAKennedy Space Center this week preparing for the launch of the @TEMPO_Mission!
Learn more details about the launch today at 1pm ET at:
nasa.gov/nasalive
Fueled up and ready to go! 🛰️ Intelsat 40e hosts our pollution-monitoring instrument, TEMPO. The @TEMPO_Mission will soon provide the first-ever hourly scans of air quality over greater North America to better understand the air we breathe.
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ICYMI: Congrats to @Harvard doctoral student Juliana García-Mejía and incoming postdoc Samuel Yee for being named #51PegasibFellows by the @HSFdn! Yee and García-Mejía are two of only eight students in the nation to receive the prestigious award.
---> s.si.edu/3U0J6lo
ICYMI: Floor Broekgaarden is one of eight students who has been named a 2023 @Harvard Horizons Scholar! The program recognizes the ideas & innovations of the most accomplished PhD students.
Learn more about her incredible black hole research: s.si.edu/405nsig
1/2: Join us tonight at 7pm ET for virtual Observatory Night! Atmospheric physicist Caroline Nowlan will talk about how we measure air pollution from space and how the @TEMPO_Mission -- launching next month -- promises to revolutionize our understanding of the air we breathe.
2/2: The public can access the feed on our
@CenterforAstro Facebook page or YouTube channel.
👀 Facebook --> facebook.com/CenterForAstrop…
👀 YouTube --> youtube.com/@CenterforAstrop…
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