March 7 is the 181st birthday of Henry Draper, one of the earliest astronomical photographers. Celebrate his work with these vintage photos of the Moon, the Sun, and the Orion Nebula. Although he was ...

Ohio State astronomy professor Adam Leroy is the 2025 recipient of the Henry Draper Medal. The Henry Draper Medal, established in 1886, is awarded every four years to a researcher or pair of ...

On August 22, 2014 we posted an image of the Orion nebula across all our social media sites (it was not an article that went out on our website, but you can see the Facebook post here). This image ...

Charles L. Bennett, a professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, will be awarded the prestigious Henry Draper Medal on May 2 at the National ...

Astronomers Heino Falcke of Radboud University and Sheperd Doeleman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will jointly receive the Henry Draper Medal for their pioneering work, which led ...

THE researches which constitute the Henry Draper Memorial have consisted for the last three years in the photographic study of the spectra of the stars. While this subject will continue to be the ...

IN NATURE of Sept. 24 the interesting Calendar of Discovery and Invention states that the first astronomical photographs were made in 1840 by John W. Draper, using daguerreotype plates; also that ...

Sheperd (Shep) Doeleman, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has been named the recipient of the National Academy of Sciences' 2021 Henry Draper Medal. As ...