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Three Harvard Astronomy Professors' (Alyssa Goodman, Dimitar Sasselov, and Irwin Shapiro) reminiscenses about Apollo 11 (in the Harvard Gazette, article by Al Powell). Watch the video & read the article here, BONUS: Learn how to see Apollo 11's landing...

More than 30,000 celestial images that were all but lost to science are about to find their way back into researchers' hands thanks to the efforts of thousands of citizen scientists. The photographs, radio maps, and other telescopic images were scanned...

In 2008, Harvard Astronomy Professor Alyssa Goodman took up a yearlong sabbatical at WGBH, where she served as that organization’s first “Scholar-in-Residence.” During her time there, she co-created and starred in Emmy-nominated Fetch! Episode 13 of...

Imagine trying to find your way across open water with no landmarks and no point of reference. That was the challenge that faced European navigators who launched the Age of Discovery in the 15th century, leaving behind known ports and coastlines to ply...

Infographic featuring Chris Beaumont and Alyssa Goodman's ADS All Sky Survey. Read More: https://www.popsci.com/article/technology/most-intriguing-stars-univers…

Goodman uses visualization as an exploratory technique in her efforts to understand interstellar gas—the stuff of which stars are born. “The data volume is not a concern,” she says; even though a big telescope can capture a petabyte of data in a night...

They are kind of a theorist’s dream.” These early models paid scant attention to the way infant stars might influence each other. “Before we could understand how neighbors affect individual star formation,” explains Arce’s former thesis advisor, Alyssa...

Right now, we are focusing on improving three-dimensional visualization in both astronomy and medicine," said Harvard’s Alyssa Goodman who heads the Astronomical Medicine project. "This project with Cas A is exactly what we have hoped would come out of it...

The space between stars is not empty—it contains copious amounts of gas and dust. Astronomers estimate that about 5-10% of the total mass of our Milky Way galaxy is contained in the interstellar gas and dust, and about 1% is in the form of tiny dust...

A statistician and a computer scientist have been named co-leaders of Harvard’s new Data Science Initiative, the Harvard University Office of the Vice Provost for Research announced today. Alyssa Goodman is on the Data Science Steering Committee. Read...