Introduction to the Harvard Plate Stacks

Name: Introduction to the Harvard Plate Stacks
Start: 2025-08-12T12:00:00-0400
End: 2026-06-16T13:00:00-0400
Location: Harvard Plate Stacks | Center for Astrophysics

Tue, Aug 12, 12pm - 1pm EDT

Harvard Plate Stacks | Center for Astrophysics

Cambridge MA, United States

The Harvard Plate Stacks

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Visit the Harvard Plate Stacks, the largest collection of glass plates of the night sky in the world. Learn about a century of women making revolutionary discovery that shape the way we see the Universe.

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The Harvard Plate Stacks is the Harvard College Observatory's Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection and is the most extensive collection of its kind in the world. The collection spans over 550,000 glass plate negatives and spectral images, covering both the northern and southern hemispheres. The Harvard Plate Stacks make up over a century of irreplaceable scientific observations and represent the first full image of the visible Universe. Hundreds of women studied and curated the Harvard Plate Stacks while making discoveries of their own, but their work often went unrecognized. The Harvard Plate Stacks and The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian is dedicated to understanding and undoing the erasure of these women’s contributions while advancing and enabling the creation of new knowledge using the Harvard Plate Stacks Collection.

Tue, Aug 12, 12pm - 1pm EDT

Harvard Plate Stacks | Center for Astrophysics

Cambridge MA, United States

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