The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory Science Center is a division of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and hosts astrophysicists and scientists from around the world working on gamma ray astronomy, exoplanetary research and more.

Visit the Science Center at the base of Mount Hopkins to learn about the types of astrophysics projects happening at the Observatory and how that science impacts astronomical research around the world. More than two dozen telescopes form multiple arrays at the Observatory and engage in exoplanetary search, star surveys, spectroscopy, supernovae and gravitational research, binary star systems, black holes, gamma rays and more. The HATNet at the Whipple Observatory is world-renowed for its discovery of more than 60 exoplanets, the most ever discovered by a single project.

Science and Visitor's Center store is open Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm and on the first Saturday of every month from 8:30am - 1:00pm. Admittance to the Science Center is free of charge.
Tours are offered of all telescopes at the Observatory on MWF from March - November each year. Tours are an all-day adventure beginning at 9am and ending at 3pm. Tours are $10 per person for 2018.