Lowell Discovery Telescope

Throwing DARTs: Exploring NASA’s Planetary Defense Mission

In this episode of Star Stuff, Cody, Hailey, Lowell Astronomer Dr. Nick Moskovitz, and DART Team Lead Dr. Cristina Thomas will discuss the ins and outs of NASA’s Double Asteroid […]

Comets, Asteroids, and Centaurs

A comet, an asteroid, and a centaur walk into a bar(red spiral galaxy)… If you want to be cool and get this joke, listen in on this episode of Star […]

A Decade of Exploration at the LDT | Dr. Stephen Levine & Cecilia Siqueiros

How do you use a state-of-the-art, 4.3-meter telescope? Very carefully! LDT Scientist Dr. Stephen Levine and Telescope Operator Cecilia Siqueiros will join historian Kevin Schindler to demonstrate how we open […]

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 […]

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 […]

Research at Lowell: “Quasi-satellite” Asteroid Might be Moon Relic

According to a team of Arizona-based astronomers that includes Lowell Observatory’s Audrey Thirouin, the space rock known as Kamo’oalewa might be a fragment of the Moon. If so, it is […]

A team of scientists including Lowell Observatory’s Dr. Audrey Thirouin have characterized a rare solar system body that exhibits characteristics of both comets and asteroids. Of the half-million known members […]

Clark 125th Anniversary | First Light

Clark 125th Anniversary | First Light On July 23, 1896, Lowell Observatory’s 24-inch Clark Refractor saw first light. Thus began the life of one of the world’s most storied telescopes. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]