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Location
1400 West Mars Hill RdFlagstaff AZ, 86001
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Hi everyone, There’s a great article in today’s New York Times about new, very compelling evidence for a supermassive black hole lurking in the heart of the Milky Way. Using the European […]
Hi everyone, [vcex_spacing size=”30px”] Back in June, I sent an AstroAlert about an opportunity to sing in a “virtual choir” as part of a tribute to the majesty of the […]
Next week brings one of the more festive holidays of the year, honoring the principle patron saint of Ireland. This is, of course, St. Patrick’s Day and is held on […]
[…] hole’s event horizon – the boundary where nothing, not even light, can escape the ferocio us gravitational pull. The brighter glow at the bottom is caused by the gas rotating […]
Hi everyone, [vcex_spacing size=”10px”] Do you like science? Secretly wish you worked for NASA? Got a smartphone? Then here’s an opportunity for you! [vcex_spacing size=”10px”] NASA is looking for citizen […]
Hi everyone, As you probably know, this week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission that landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon’s surface on July […]
Hi everyone, [vcex_spacing size=”10px”] Twenty additional moons have recently been discovered around Saturn, bringing the total to 82 known companions around the ringed planet. And you can help name them! […]
Hi everyone, [vcex_spacing size=”10px”] Great news – the 2019 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three astronomers/astrophysicists! [vcex_spacing size=”10px”] Canadian cosmologist Jim Peebles is a pioneer in the […]
Hi everyone, [vcex_spacing size=”10px”] If you enjoyed Carl Sagan’s original Cosmos television series from the 1980s and/or its more recent sequel hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, then here’s some good news. National […]
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 […]
Photo: A total lunar eclipse that occurred in July of 2018 | ESO A total lunar eclipse will occur on May 26, 2021. Read on to learn more about the […]
Photo: The dome of the Clark Refractor, the same dome–with some modifications–that still stands on Mars Hill today. The Clark dome was built in 1896 and set up at Lowell […]