Follow-up observations in the near-infrared with the Gemini Near-Infrared Spectrograph (GNIRS), and in the optical with the Hobby Eberly Telescope, were obtained to paint a complete picture of the ...

While recent research shows the night sky is getting brighter every year across North America, the Big Bend area in Texas has ...

These jets can be detected with radio telescopes up to large distances. ... LOFAR and the Hobby Eberly Telescope, we are one step closer to understanding the enigmatic early Universe.

The Hobby-Eberly telescope is powered by a 10-meter wide mirror, capable of collecting light from 11 billion years ago. The mirror in the model, 7% the size of the real one, ...

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is looking to create one of the largest maps of the universe by creating a catalog of Lyman-alpha-emitting galaxies.

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy.The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current age ...

Jets are cosmic phenomena that could happen in a couple of ways. Now, researchers have found one larger than the Milky Way, ...

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 Hobby Eberly Telescope stands atop a hill before the beginning of a star party at McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas, on May 27. Paul Ratje for NPR / ...