Under the leadership of George Ellery Hale, the 100-inch mirror for Mount Wilson Observatory's telescope was ordered in 1906, with funding provided sequentially by businessman John Hooker and then ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital dynamics and launch schedules wait for no one, and Burns couldn’t move his ...

Did light shine in the universe’s earliest moments, or was it hidden from view? While this question may seem simple at first, arecent article by Live Sciencereveals that the reality is far more ...

First Light! Astronomy on Tap brings professional astronomers and space enthusiasts out of the lecture hall and into local ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the universe’s development, known as the Cosmic Dawn.