Tag: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

  • Nation & World

    Viewing the solar eclipse? There’s an app for that

    The Smithsonian and Harvard have released an interactive app ahead of the 2017 total solar eclipse, giving Americans a front-row seat to a rare celestial event.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Pluto in detail

    Scott Kenyon offers an astrophysicist’s view of the New Horizons mission to Pluto.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Bright idea

    In a new paper, Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Edwin Turner of Princeton University suggest a new technique for finding aliens: Look for their city lights.

    3 minutes