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  • Predominantly blue and orange swirling colors and light with overlapping images showing a galaxy power lines and a helmeted figure walking with their back to the viewer

    Join the Observatory Book Club!

    February's book is Death's End by Cixin Liu

  • Electric blue ram pressure stripping streaks seen emanating from ESO 137-001, a giant gas stream can be seen extending towards the bottom of the frame, only visible in the X-ray part of the spectrum.

    Browse CfA Publications

    Wolbach staff members curate the CfA bibgroup on ADS to help you easily find CfA research

  • The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and ha

    January Visual Astronomy Display

    Winter on Mars, what's launching in 2023, and the so-called "crisis of cosmology" on this month's VAD!

  • Needle point by Yvette Cendes depicting figures associated with constellations.

    The Center for Astrophysics: Creative Space

    An online exhibit celebrating the creative ways that astronomers bring art and science together.

Upcoming Events

2023 Feb 14

PHaEDRA Office Hour - Transcription Q&A

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Collection Highlights

  • "The Bond Death Masks" (c. 1844, 1859)
  • "The Theory of Light" by Thomas Preston (1895)
  • "A New Method of Finding a Ship’s Position at Sea" by Capt. Thomas H. Sumner (1851)

Recent Exhibits

The Center for Astrophysics: Creative Space
A celebration of the ways that astronomers bring art and science together by Giancarlo Romeo and Rebecca Charbonneau

Find out more about past exhibits here.

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