While some galaxies are rotund and others are slender disks like our spiral Milky Way, new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that the Sombrero ...
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle in 1990 and remains in operation. A 2.4-meter (7.9 ft) aperture ...
The University of Texas Department of Astronomy and McDonald Observatory sponsor several public outreach programs. These programs are designed to educate the public ...
McDonald Observatory. 23 April 2012. Galveston, TX --The University of Texas at Austin is naming an innovative astronomical instrument doing groundbreaking work at ...
Behind the Webb (video podcast) Technology at the Extremes; The Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's successor, will see in infrared, the light emitted by the farthest ...
Hobby-Eberly Telescope. The HET was designed and constructed with a unique objective: to gather a very large amount of light, specifically for spectroscopy, at ...
