New Image Reveals Comet-Like Tail Trailing DART Target Dimorphos
Scientists have captured a stunning image of an extensive plume of debris emanating from the asteroid moon Dimorphos. The plume stretches more than 600 miles (10,000 kilometers) and was created […]
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NASA DART Mission a Success
On Monday, September 26, 2022, people all around the world watched live as NASA’s unprecedented DART spacecraft impacted the surface of asteroid Dimorphos the smaller member of the binary asteroid […]
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PRESS RELEASE: YOUNGEST PAIR OF ASTEROIDS IN SOLAR SYSTEM DETECTED
Flagstaff, AZ. – An international team of astronomers has discovered a pair of asteroids that split off from their parent body a mere 300 years ago. The duo is exceptional […]
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LOWELL OBSERVATORY PRESS RELEASE: LOWELL DISCOVERY TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS HELP CONFIRM SECOND EARTH TROJAN ASTEROID
Flagstaff, AZ. – Supported by observations made with the 4.3-meter Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) in northern Arizona, an international team of scientists confirmed the existence of the second-known Earth Trojan […]
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PRESS RELEASE: TWELVE FOR DINNER: THE MILKY WAY’S FEEDING HABITS SHINE A LIGHT ON DARK MATTER
Flagstaff, AZ. – Astronomers are one step closer to learning the properties of dark matter enveloping our Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a new map of twelve streams of stars […]
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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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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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