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The Sound of Science in Movies: We Review Sci-Fi Scores

Star Stuff is joined by Nate Nise, Kevin White, and Dr. Scott Barrows of Lowell Observatory to talk about a few of our favorite sci-fi scores. To listen along with […]

Mars Hill Quick Report: May 30 – June 5

Introducing the Mars Hill Quick Report, a bite-size weekly news update from Lowell Observatory! Each week, we’ll give you the short version of upcoming events, and a little dash of […]

Celebrating Lowell Observatory’s 128th Anniversary

In an increasingly bright world, dark skies are becoming difficult to come by. Light pollution, smog, and man-made objects in Earth’s orbit are making astronomical observation more and more difficult […]

View from Mars Hill: Possible meteor storm in the forecast for May 30

As posted on AZDailySun.com on May 21, 2022 On the evening of May 30, the sky may come alive with an outburst of meteor activity. The result of a comet […]

The Career Path of an Astronomer

Star Stuff chats with Lowell research scientists Dr. Joe Llama and Dr. Kyler Kuehn about how they got into astronomy, where their studies took them, and why they didn’t like […]

ADC Construction Update | May 2022

The much-anticipated Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center is starting to take shape! Since we broke ground on June 26, 2021, walls and an elevator shaft have begun […]

Uncovering 50-Year-Old Moon Rock: We Talk to Dr. Chip Shearer

In this episode of Star Stuff, Dr. Chip Shearer talks about his project with NASA to finally open a capsule of Moon rock collected in the early 1970s during the […]

Total Lunar Eclipse Party | May 15, 2022

Celebrate This Rare Event at Lowell! There will be a total lunar eclipse on the evening of May 15, into the early morning hours of May 16. It will be […]

The Total Lunar Eclipse: Myth, Lore, and History

Learn about how eclipses have been represented in history and in lore, and find out some fun facts about the moon. 

Sol’s Planets – We Talk To Two Lowell Planetary Scientists

In this episode of Star Stuff, the crew talks all about planets with two of Lowell’s planetary scientists, Dr. Amanda Bosh and Dr. Jennifer Hanley. Learn about our solar system’s […]

The Story of Pluto: A Virtual Exhibit from Lowell Archives

In the spring of 2021, NAU student Melissa Valenzuela was awarded the NAU/NASA Space Research Grant to design a virtual exhibit about Pluto. She started her internship at Lowell Observatory […]

  This is an automated transcript from Star Stuff Podcast Episode 17: Exploring Dark Skies with Grand Canyon “Dark Sky Ranger” Rader Lane. You can listen to the audio of […]