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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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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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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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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Celebrating the 2020 Fall Equinox
Photo: The rising Sun, as seen through the Fall Equinox horizon marker at the Giovale Open Deck Observatory. What is an equinox? An equinox is the moment at which which […]
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Secrets of Lowell: The Clark Telescope
Photo: The 24″ Clark refractor (Credit: Raymond Dake Photography) Of the many telescopes found on Lowell Observatory’s central Flagstaff campus, the most prolific and recognizable is the Clark Refractor. Nestled […]
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New Kid on the Block: Dyer Telescope
Photo: the 24″ Dyer telescope, being tested by Lowell staff | Danielle Adams, 2020 Co-Written with Jim Cole, Senior Public Program Educator The Dyer telescope is the newest addition to […]
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