View From Mars Hill: Saturn: Alluring, Familiar and Well-positioned
From the Arizona Daily Sun, September 8, 2021 Saturn, one of the more familiar and alluring features of the night sky, is now well-positioned to wow observers. The farthest planet […]
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View From Mars Hill: The Planets and Their Ties to the Days of the Week
From the Arizona Daily Sun, September 4, 2021 The evening sky currently features the two largest planets in our solar system, Jupiter and Saturn. Since ancient times, sky watchers have […]
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View From Mars Hill: In Remembrance of Carolyn Shoemaker
From the Arizona Daily Sun, August 21, 2021 The world lost a legend on August 13 with the passing of Carolyn Shoemaker. A housewife-turned scientist, she once held the record […]
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Research at Lowell: Astronomers Identify Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebula
The Kepler Mission allowed scientists to discover more than 2,000 exoplanets (planets outside of the solar system). Now, a team of astronomers led by former Lowell Observatory astronomer George Jacoby […]
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View from Mars Hill: The return of the Perseid Meteor Shower
As posted on the Arizona Daily Sun website on July 31, 2021 Photo: A 30-second exposure of a meteor, taken with a circular fisheye lens during the 2016 Perseid meteor […]
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PRESS RELEASE: LOWELL OBSERVATORY BREAKS GROUND ON NEW DISCOVERY CENTER
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 29, 2021 Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center Set to Open in 2024 Flagstaff, AZ. – Lowell Observatory’s vision for its education program is bold […]
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New Horizons Mission
Will Grudy and his fellow New Horizon mission scientists continue to analyze data from not only Pluto, but also Arrokoth.
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Surveying Meteors
Nick Moskovitz helps to operate a network of video cameras called LO-CAMS (the Lowell Observatory Cameras for All-sky Meteor Surveillance).
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Detecting Exoplanets
Along with Lisa Prato and other members of DEFT (Disks and Exoplanets Flagstaff Team) at Lowell Observatory, and in collaboration with astronomers at Rice University, Lauren Biddle has found a new way to
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Trans-Neptunian Objects
In January 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft flew by the small TNO Arrokoth, which is a contact binary located in the dynamically Cold Classical population.
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Laboratory Studies of the Stability of Liquids in the Outer Solar System
Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is the only body besides Earth in the solar system to have liquid on its surface.
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The Quest to Understand Dark Energy
The Dark Energy Survey was a large-scale astronomical survey covering 5000 square degrees – roughly 1/8 of the entire sky – focusing primarily in the southern hemisphere.
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