Itinerary for a Winter Day at Lowell Observatory

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12/10/2025

By Madison Mooney

Itinerary for a Winter Day at Lowell Observatory So, you’d like to visit the observatory, but you’re not sure of the best way to budget your time? Never fear: check […]

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Itinerary for a Snowy Day at Lowell Observatory

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12/01/2025

By Madison Mooney

Itinerary for a Snowy Day at Lowell Observatory You’ve planned your visit to the observatory, but fresh snow covers Mars Hill and flakes are beginning to fall. You might think […]

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Sunlight filters through tall aspen trees with golden autumn leaves at Lowell Observatory, surrounded by evergreens and colorful fall foliage.

Itinerary for a Perfect Fall Visit to Lowell Observatory

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09/24/2025

By Madison Mooney

Itinerary for a Perfect Fall Visit to Lowell Observatory There’s nothing quite like a crisp fall day on Mars Hill. If you’d like to plan a visit to Lowell Observatory […]

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Astronomy and Asphalt: The Stories Behind Lowell’s New Route 66 Tour

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09/22/2025

By Madison Mooney

Astronomy and Asphalt: The Stories Behind Lowell’s New Route 66 Tour Interview with Stoker Stoker, Historical Tours Specialist Lowell Observatory’s legacy is as deeply woven into the fabric of the […]

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Todd Gonzales leads a science demonstration for an excited group of young children, releasing a cloud of vapor from a container of dry ice. The kids, seated and standing around him, reach up enthusiastically toward the fog. The background features colorful, space-themed graphics and text about light and shadow.

Astronomy, Arachnids, and the Art of Engagement: Meet Todd Gonzales, the new Director of Public Programs

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09/10/2025

By Madison Mooney

Astronomy, Arachnids, and the Art of Engagement: Meet Todd Gonzales, the new Director of Public Programs What do black widow spiders, telescope lenses, and middle school science classrooms have in […]

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See Saturn at Its Biggest and Brightest This Month

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09/04/2025

By Madison Mooney

See Saturn at Its Biggest and Brightest This Month This September, stargazers get a serious treat: Saturn reaches opposition — its brightest and closest appearance of the year — on […]

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Todd Gonzales, newly appointed Director of Public Programming at Lowell Observatory, stands smiling with arms crossed in front of the Clark Telescope Dome in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Lowell Observatory Announces Todd Gonzales as Director of Public Programming

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09/02/2025

By Cody Half-Moon

LOWELL OBSERVATORY ANNOUNCES TODD GONZALES AS DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS Flagstaff, AZ — Lowell Observatory has appointed Todd Gonzales as its new Director of Public Programs, an executive role formerly […]

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Image of the star cluster NGC 3603 surrounded by glowing orange-red nebula gas and dust. Bright stars are clustered densely at the center, with fainter stars scattered across the darker outer regions of space.

Astronomers Reveal Massive Binary Star System in Milky Way

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08/22/2025

By Kevin Schindler

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22 August 2025 ***Contact details appear below Astronomers Reveal Massive Binary Star System in Milky Way The binary star system NGC 3603-A1 is one of […]

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The Lowell Discovery Telescope at night, its silver, angular dome open under a sky filled with stars. Red light glows from windows near the base of the structure, and pine trees and a fence line the surrounding area.

A Case for Curiosity: Why Publicly Funded Science Still Deserves Our Support

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08/01/2025

By Madison Mooney

A Case for Curiosity: Why Publicly Funded Science Still Deserves Our Support It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the current state of things in our country. Budgets are shrinking, priorities […]

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Long-exposure photograph of the Perseid meteor shower, showing a bright meteor streaking across a star-filled night sky above a dark, silhouetted landscape.

Catch the Perseids Early: Meteor Viewing from Mars Hill

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07/22/2025

By Madison Mooney

Catch the Perseids Early: Meteor Viewing from Mars Hill The Perseid meteor shower is one of the most anticipated astronomical events of the year. Known for its bright, fast-moving meteors, […]

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A glowing, golden web of stars and cosmic dust stretches across a dark background, resembling a vast galactic filament or neural network. The bright points of light are clustered and connected by faint, wispy trails, creating an ethereal and intricate structure in deep space.

Cosmic Highways: Galaxy Clusters Reveal Which Way Traffic Flows in the Universe

BlogNewsPress ReleasesWhat's Up at Lowell
07/07/2025

By Kevin Schindler

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7 July 2025 ***Contact details appear below ***Link to The Astrophysical Journal Letters paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade66d Cosmic Highways: Galaxy Clusters Reveal Which Way Traffic Flows in […]

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Press Release: Asteroid Day 2025

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06/18/2025

By Kevin Schindler

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 18, 2025 ***Contact details appear below ***Event Website: https://www.asteroiddayaz.com/activities  Press Release: Apollo Astronaut Rusty Schweickart, Astronomer Scott Manley and Author Mary Robinette Kowal Headline […]

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