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Interactive Stargazing | It’s Stargazing, Reimagined! September 29, 2022

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You will tell Lowell Observatory where to point the telescope in this LIVE Interactive Stargazing experience on September 29 at 10pm PDT! Get ready for the BRAND NEW Interactive Stargazing 2.0: Discover the skies with Lowell Observatory, live from our Giovale Open Deck Observatory. Make requests for objects you want to see in the night […]

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Shredded Stars and Gamma-ray Bursts

Lowell Observatory 1400 W Mars Hill Rd, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

The Lowell Discovery Telescope is an ideal tool for exploring dramatic cosmological events, such as the shredding of stars by black holes and the emission of gamma-ray bursts when neutron stars collide. Tonight, Dr. Brad Cenko, Research Astrophysicist of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and University of Maryland, along with graduate students Erica Hammerstein […]

Interactive Stargazing | It’s Stargazing, Reimagined! October 27, 2022

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You will tell Lowell Observatory where to point the telescope in this LIVE Interactive Stargazing experience on October 27 at 10pm PDT! Get ready for the BRAND NEW Interactive Stargazing 2.0: Discover the skies with Lowell Observatory, live from our Giovale Open Deck Observatory. Make requests for objects you want to see in the night […]

Total Lunar Eclipse | November 8, 2022

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Attention night owls! 🦉✨ Join us on YouTube at 2am MST on November 8 to celebrate the total lunar eclipse! Lowell Historian Kevin Schindler and Moon expert John Compton will be your hosts as we await totality at 4am MST. *Note: Programming may be adjusted due to inclement weather.

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Shocked Poststarburst Galaxy Candidates

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Galaxies that are transitional between active star-forming and quiescent phases are known as shocked poststarburst galaxies. Antoniu Fodor of the University of Toledo—one of Lowell Observatory’s LDT institutional science partners—uses the LDT to identify and study them. Tonight, he will join Lowell Historian Kevin Schindler to share the results of this research.

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Mars Opposition with McDonald Observatory | Livestream Event

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We're teaming up with McDonald Observatory in West Texas for the 2022 Mars Opposition! Starting at 7pm MST on December 8, John Compton and Kevin Schindler of Lowell Observatory will join members of the McDonald team in a discussion about all things Mars. They'll take a deep dive into the Red Planet's science, history, geology, […]

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Interactive Stargazing | It’s Stargazing, Reimagined! December 15, 2022

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You will tell Lowell Observatory where to point the telescope in this LIVE Interactive Stargazing experience on December 15 at 10pm PDT! Get ready for the BRAND NEW Interactive Stargazing 2.0: Discover the skies with Lowell Observatory, live from our Giovale Open Deck Observatory. Make requests for objects you want to see in the night […]

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Messier Marathon | International Star Party | March 18-19, 2023

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The Messier Marathon is upon us! Join Lowell Observatory for an all-night virtual star party, during which we'll hunt for all 110 objects in Charles Messier's famous catalog. These are among the most prominent deep-sky objects visible in the night sky, including a variety of star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. We'll broadcast live from the […]

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