Astronomy: Institutions: Research Centers

The Caltech Computational Astronomy Group uses high-performance parallel computers for analysis of data from many different observatories.

Includes information about the Danish satellite program, the Spectrum Roentgen Gamma satellite, the Gamma Ray Laboratory, and the Infrared Space Observatory.

Department of Astrophysical Sciences.

Managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology, JPL is the leading U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system.

Astronomical Institute of the University of Amsterdam. Requires JavaScript.

A joint collaboration between the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO).

Established in 1834, the observatory takes part in many space projects within the framework of ESA and other international cooperation, including Mars-94, ISO, Spectrum-X-Gamma, and Odin.

Interdisciplinary research group for the laboratory analysis for extraterrestrial materials (meteorites, presolar grains, and interplanetary dust). Analytical techniques used include SIMS, SEM, NanoSIMS, TEM, noble gas mass. spectrometers.

ETH Zürich

Astrophysics and Supercomputing

Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UCSC. Site includes descriptions of faculty and student research, information for current and prospective graduate students, and the popular "ask an astronomer" feature.

Astronomy Department of California Institute of Technology.

Department of Astronomy: research, publications, people, academia, links.

Research programs in theoretical and observational astronomy.

Part of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. Designs and runs software that enables high-performance computing on a variety of astronomy-related problems, including large-scale structure formation and planet formation.