A total solar eclipse will take place on April 8, 2024 and Texas is an ideal location for viewing this rare celestial display. Lowell Observatory is teaming with the City of Waco, Baylor University, and Discovery on a public event, Eclipse Over Texas 2024. This will include an onsite celebration at Baylor University’s McLane […]

Lowell Observatory and Grand Canyon Conservancy are proud to announce the second installment of “Native Constellation Storytelling for Winter Skies.” This unique and culturally enriching livestream event will take place on January 11 in collaboration with Grand Canyon Conservancy, hosted by Lowell Observatory's Public Information Officer and Historian, Kevin Schindler, in conversation with Gerald Dawavendewa, […]

Join us for a livestream event offering a rare opportunity to delve into the night sky storytelling of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, presented by Autumn Gillard in collaboration with Lowell Observatory and Grand Canyon Conservancy.

Join Lowell Observatory Historian Kevin Schindler, astronomer Dean Regas, and Dark Sky Partners LLC principal Chris Luginbuhl for a special live event! Each presenter will share his perspective on the importance of protecting our precious dark skies, bringing expertise from their areas of astronomical study. This stream is presented in partnership with Lowell Observatory and […]

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 […]

Alice Bowman will speak about New Horizons’ continuing journey through the eyes of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory mission operations team and describe some of the technical, scientific, and personal challenges of piloting the spacecraft.

Join Lowell Observatory's I Heart Pluto Festival in an interview by Melissa Sevigny (Science Reporter at KNAU) with Dr. Alan Stern about the future of New Horizons. Q&A and chat questions are encouraged!

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 […]

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.