503_APF3mLGS © 2006 Laurie Hatch / image and text – LICK OBSERVATORY – Mt. Hamilton California 2006 July 8 – AUTOMATED PLANET FINDER TELESCOPE – Two of the ...
Winds exceeding 110 mph that tore across the top of Mount Hamilton early Christmas morning blasted a massive steel protective door off the iconic white dome at Lick Observatory. Now, with back-to-back ...
Flagstaff, Ariz.– A unique 21-inch telescope housed in a 1920s stone building on Lowell Observatory’s Mars Hill campus continues to serve as astronomer Wes Lockwood’s main telescope in a project ...
Ever since the release of the first mind-bending images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on July 12, 2022, global interest in astronomy has been on the rise. And while humanity's most ...
After more than six decades of staring off into space, Kitt Peak National Observatory still touts itself as a place with plenty to see. The world’s largest collection of major optical telescopes is ...
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine analyzes the causes of the 2020 collapse of the National Science Foundation’s telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in ...
Astronomers compare losing the observatory in Puerto Rico to losing a big brother. It was once the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. Updated on Dec. 4 at 11:30 a.m. ET The Arecibo ...