View from Mars Hill: Quadrantid Meteor Shower
Photo: Prokhor Minin By Kevin Schindler The new year kicks off with a bang as the Quadrantid Meteor Shower makes its annual visit on January 3-4. This shower can produce […]
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View from Mars Hill: Great Conjunction arrives just in time for the holidays
Photo: Jupiter, Saturn, and the crescent Moon shot through Lowell’s Saturn Gate earlier this month | Amanda Bosh By Kevin Schindler The next nine days will be something for sky […]
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Deep Space Spotlight: Great Conjunction Edition | Iapetus, Saturn’s Yin and Yang
Photo: Two global images of Iapetus showing the extreme differences in brightness on its surface | NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Iapetus is the 3rd largest of Saturn’s 82 moons, coming in […]
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Lowell Scientists Help Characterize Second Known Minimoon
PRESS RELEASE NOVEMBER 23, 2020 Lowell Scientists Help Characterize Second Known Minimoon Flagstaff, AZ. – Astronomers using data collected with the Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) have helped to characterize only […]
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Deep Space Spotlight: NGC 281, the Pacman Nebula
Photo: A composite image of NGC 281 containing X-ray data in purple and infrared observations in red, green, and blue. | credit: NASA/CXC/CfA/S.Wolk; IR: NASA/JPL/CfA/S.Wolk NGC 281 is an emission […]
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Deep Space Spotlight: NGC 1365, the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy
Photo: NGC 1365, aka the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy | ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team NGC 1365 is an enormous, visually-stunning spiral galaxy located in the […]
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Deep Space Spotlight: NGC 2359, Thor’s Helmet Nebula
Photo: NGC 2359, aka Thor’s Helmet Nebula, taken using broadband and narrowband filters | Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon Sky Center/University of Arizona NGC 2359, or Thor’s Helmet Nebula, is an […]
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How to View the Opposition of Mars | The Red Planet at its Biggest and Brightest
Photo: An artist’s rendition of Mars in proximity to Earth | Getty Images Mars is reaching full opposition on October 13, 2020, when it will be biggest and brightest in […]
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Michael West Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. So wrote the longtime United States Senator from Arkansas, […]
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Olympus Mons | The Biggest Hotspot in the Solar System
Photo: a computer-generated view of Olympus Mons | Dreksler Astral Mars, our closest planetary neighbor, is cool for a ton of reasons—it’s named after the Roman god of war, it’s […]
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Robert Burnham and his Celestial Handbook
The appeal of astronomy is both intellectual and aesthetic; it combines the thrill of exploration and discovery, the fun of sight-seeing, and the sheer pleasure of firsthand acquaintance with incredibly […]
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View From Mars Hill: The Owl Cluster
Photo: the Clark Dome | Raymond Dake Photography By Kevin Schindler In the opening scene of the 1963 epic comedy film, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Jimmy Durante’s […]
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