A planet orbiting a giant red star has been discovered by an astronomy team led by Penn State’s Alex Wolszczan, who in 1992 discovered the first planets ever found outside our solar system. The new ...

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See a special exhibit at Texas Science & Natural History Museum, “Big Eye on Dark Skies: Hobby-Eberly Telescope” and learn how the HET helps scientists. Discover how astronomers study distant galaxies ...

The on-campus museum also has opened its newest temporary exhibit, featuring a scale model of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, the largest optical telescope in North America. A replica of an 80-ton ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new exhibit at the Texas Science and Natural History Museum is bringing the McDonald Observatory to the University of Texas campus. The “Big Eye on Dark Skies” exhibit opened this ...

UA scientists have been tapped to help with the hunt for what exactly all that dark energy in the universe is. The contracts are bringing in a total of $6 million to the university. Daniel Stolte of ...

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This artist’s illustration shows the largest radio jet ever found in the early Universe. The jet was first identified using the international Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Telescope, a network of radio ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new exhibit at the Texas Science and Natural History Museum is bringing the McDonald Observatory to the University of Texas campus. UNITED STATES – AUGUST 29: McDonald Observatory, ...