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

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

So you can think about starlight falling on Earth, and telescopes are really buckets that we put out to catch starlight the way you might collect rainwater. So this will have five times the collecting ...

De Ruiter and her colleagues turned to Arizona's Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) and Texas's Hobby-Eberly Telescope, where they observed a source titled ILTJ1101 in the archive. This is how they ...

Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is hundreds of thousands of light-years long.

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 ...

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 ...

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. These galaxies ...

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, collects light from ...

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 ...