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...which is formed out of a partnership between the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) and the Smithsonian Institute's Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), is dedicated, according to the information on its Web site, "to pursue studies of those basic physical processes that determine the nature and evolution of the Universe...
Harvard does have a stake in telescopes operated by the Smithsonian Institution, but Kirshner and Latham say that these telescopes do not provide enough opportunity for research, in quantity or in quality...
About 200 Smithsonian and Harvard scientists cooperate in astrophysical research, according to the Web site...
...relationship with a "quasi-governmental" organization like the Smithsonian allows professors and students unusual possibilities for research, Kirshner says...
Harvard affiliates can also work with the Smithsonian on major research projects like the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), a satellite that Kirshner calls "the X-ray equivalent of the Hubble Space Telescope...