The observatory is open to the night air, so please dress accordingly. The telescopes will be inside the walls of the building, but the roof will roll away to expose the night sky. The building serves both as a shelter for the telescopes and as a classroom. Benches for sitting line the walls. The George Observatory has reopened after nearly two years undergoing an extreme makeover. First opened in the fall of 1989, the observatory was closed for long-awaited renovations since 2019. And now Saturday night stargazing is back! Join us on deck for real time camera feeds from the telescopes, expert interactions with astronomers and a. Global Observatory on Health Research and Development (R&D) Published following wide user feedback on a demonstration version, this is a centralized and comprehensive source of information and analyses on global health R&D activities.
UT astronomers are set to lead some of the largest programs in the first year of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, including the largest project overall. Set to launch this Halloween, the telescope will become operational by mid-2022.
McDonald Observatory is announcing a new program to honor West Texas businesses and organizations for Night Skies Friendly Lighting practices. These practices keep light on the ground and out of the sky, helping to preserve the exceptional night skies for which far West Texas is famous.
Three years into its quest to reveal the nature of dark energy, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is on track to complete the largest map of the cosmos ever. The team will create a three-dimensional map of 2.5 million galaxies that will help astronomers understand how and why the expansion of the universe is speeding up over time.
The University of Texas at Austin and other GMT partners the fabrication of the sixth of seven of the world’s largest monolithic mirrors. These mirrors will allow astronomers to see farther into the universe with more detail than any other optical telescope before.
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A team of astronomers led by our Andrew Vanderburg has used the TESS and Spitzer space telescopes to discover what may be the first intact planet found closely orbiting a white dwarf, the dense leftover of a sun-like star. The work included follow-up observations with our Hobby-Eberly Telescope.