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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, […]

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

The Lowell Discovery Telescope is an ideal tool for exploring galactic building blocks such as stars that have been ripped apart from their home group. Lowell Observatory’s Director of Technology Dr. Kyler Kuehn will join Lowell Historian Kevin Schindler to discuss dismembered star clusters, stellar streams, and more.

The massive primary mirror of the Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) measures 14 feet in diameter by 4 inches thick. Yet its critical reflective layer is only 100 nanometers thick—1,000 times thinner than typical photocopy paper! This aluminum skin must be periodically replaced, a painstaking process that takes weeks to complete. Tonight, LDT Engineering Manager Frank […]

You will tell Lowell Observatory where to point the telescope in this LIVE Interactive Stargazing experience on July 28 at 11pm PDT! Get ready for the BRAND NEW Interactive Stargazing 2.0: Discover the skies with Lowell Observatory expert educator and TikTok star Hannah Zigo, live from our Giovale Open Deck Observatory. Make requests for objects […]

We've got a special Astronomy on Tap livestream this month with Astronomy on Tap Seattle! They will be featuring scientists from Lowell Observatory at Bickersons Brewhouse in Seattle, Washington! First, Dr. Jeff Hall will talk about Pluto's discovery, what's been going on since then, and its tie to the Lowell Observatory. Then, Dr. Moskovitz will […]

For millennia, humans have asked the question, “Are we alone?" One step in answering this question involves searching for and studying exoplanets—planets around stars other than our Sun. The Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) is ideal for such a study. One project, for instance, combines the power of the LDT with a Yale University-built instrument called […]