Astronomers have barely scratched the surface of mapping the nearly endless stars and galaxies of the heavens. The Hobby-Eberly Telescope is enabling scientists to construct the largest galaxy map ...

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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) – Developing a map of the universe is now closer than ever before. Scientists with the University of Texas announced this past month that they have now located and mapped more ...