The B.S. in astronomy & astrophysics at UW offers students an adventurous course of study in astronomical objects—from stars to black holes to solar systems—and their properties and functions. The ...

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...

One hundred years ago, Edwin Hubble made the first discovery of galaxies outside of our own. In 1923, Hubble found a way to view individual stars within the Andromeda Galaxy, which is 2.537 million ...

Ground-based optical astronomy primarily relies on nighttime observations due to the Sun's overwhelming brightness obscuring fainter celestial objects. Specialized solar telescopes and space-based ...

KEARNEY — A comet streaking across the night sky. The northern lights illuminating a Nebraska landscape. A supermoon rising over the horizon. They’re examples of our fascination with astronomy. At the ...

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