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Video Interview with Alyssa Goodman.

" We have peered far into the Universe and vastly expanded our knowledge of distant realms. But interestingly enough, we are still refining our understanding of our own place within our galaxy, the Milky Way. Research into this question follows in the...

Astronomy is a visual science. As soon as Galileo put brush to paper to capture his view of the Moon through a telescope , astronomy conveyed many ideas through illustration and, eventually, photography. In just the last few decades, images from the...

When professor of astronomy Alyssa A. Goodman began teaching her undergraduate class on data visualization a decade ago, she had to explain what the term meant. These days, her students already know. Read More: New Opportunities, New Intellectual...

Alyssa A. Goodman, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy and Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution, has been selected the 2015 Scientist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation . Read More: Astronomy Professor Goodman Named...

Yeilanise Noriega, a sixth-grader at Jackson/Mann K-8 School, recently experienced a course that changed her world perspective exponentially — so much so that she is now convinced life exists on other planets. Read More: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette...