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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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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SCIENTISTS FIND REMNANT OF STRANGE DISMEMBERED STAR CLUSTER AT GALAXY’S EDGE
Artist’s impression of the thin stream of stars torn from the Phoenix globular cluster, wrapping around our Milky Way (left). For the study, the astronomers targeted bright Red Giant stars, […]
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LOWELL OBSERVATORY RESUMES SCIENCE OPERATIONS, CAPTURES CONTINUED BREAKUP OF COMET ATLAS
Flagstaff, AZ. – On the night of May 18, Lowell Observatory resumed science operations with the Lowell Discovery Telescope. This capped a week of testing new, COVID-19-deterring procedures. Observatory staff […]
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Lowell Discovery Telescope Resumes Science Observations and Comet ATLAS (C/2019 Y4)
By Stephen Levine, Matthew Knight, & David Schleicher The 4.3-meter Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) resumed science operations last night, May 18. The facility was closed on the 31st of March […]
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Salts in the Solar System
In a recent live stream presentation, Lowell Observatory astronomer Jennifer Hanley talked about salts in the solar system. She specifically looked at Mars and Jupiter’s moon Europa. This research is […]
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Unmasking the “Cibecue Star Stone”
Like a detective fixated on deciphering the sequence of events in a crime, astronomers use every available tool in their arsenal to build an understanding of the universe. Such is […]
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Annika Gustafsson Awarded Amelia Earhart Scholarship
Annika Gustafsson, a graduate research associate working with Lowell Observatory astronomer Nick Moskovitz, has been awarded the Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship for 2020-2021. The $10,000 award is bestowed annually […]
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EXPRES Looks to the Skies of a Scorching, Distant Planet
Yale University’s Extreme PREcision Spectrometer (EXPRES) is mounted on the Lowell Discovery Telescope. Its principle use is for discovering Earth-like planets, although astronomers are also using it for other projects […]
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DIMMING BETELGEUSE LIKELY ISN’T COLD, JUST DUSTY, NEW STUDY SHOWS
JOINT PRESS RELEASE Lowell Observatory and University of Washington FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 06, 2020 ***Contact details appear below*** DIMMING BETELGEUSE LIKELY ISN’T COLD, JUST DUSTY, NEW STUDY SHOWS […]
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Network of Video Cameras Poised to Catch Meteor Showers Over Meteor Crater
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_cta h2=”Feb 20, 2020 Update:”]As of February 2020, The Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT) is now known as the Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT).[/vc_cta][/vc_column][/vc_row] Just in time for the upcoming Perseid meteor […]
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A Runaway Star in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Flagstaff, AZ.– Astronomers have discovered a rare “runaway” star that is speeding across its galaxy at a 300,000 miles per hour (at that speed it would take about half a […]
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