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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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 ...

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 ...

The University of Texas McDonald Observatory high on Mt. Locke in the Davis Mountains is an internationally recognized center for astronomical research. It also invites the public to experience the ...

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope, background left, looks over a fully-steerable 12-meter wide radio telescope that is used to study Geodesy at the University of Texas McDonald Observatory Tuesday, June 15, ...

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 ...

The Texas Science and Natural History museum has opened a new exhibit, "Big Eye on Dark Skies," which features a scale model of the Hobby-Eberly telescope, one of the world's most powerful telescopes.