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The 'Harvard Computers' who cataloged the stars worked at which institution?

  • Harvard Observatory
  • Yale Observatory
  • Greenwich Observatory

The answer is Harvard Observatory. Harvard — women like Annie Jump Cannon classified 350,000 stars.

Harvard College Observatory

The Harvard College Observatory (HCO) is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the Harvard University Department of Astronomy. It is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, and was founded in 1839. With the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, it forms part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.

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