Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory website records, 2011.
This accession consists of the website of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) as it existed on July 1, 2011. SAO, with the Harvard College Observatory, jointly administers the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and portions of the SAO website are interwoven with the websites of the other two organizations. The SAO website includes information about research projects, weekly science reports, and general information about SAO and CfA staff and facilities. Materials are in electronic format.
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is a research bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, which was created by Congress in 1846 to carry out a bequest of Englishman James Smithson. It was not until 1890 that SAO was founded by Samuel Pierpont Langley, the Institution's third Secretary, primarily for studies of the Sun. In 1955, SAO moved from Washington, D.C., to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to affiliate with the Harvard College Observatory and to expand its staff, facilities, and, most important, its scientific scope. As an independent trust establishment of the United States government, the Institution today conducts scientific and scholarly research, administers national collections, and provides public service, education, and outreach programs supported by Congressional appropriations, trust endowments and revenues, and private contracts, grants, and gifts.
Harvard College Observatory.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
Astronomical observatories.
Astrophysical observatories.
Astrophysics
Electronic records.
Museums -- Public relations
Research.
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