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

According to McDonald Observatory Director Taft Armandroff, the Hobby-Eberly telescope is one of the largest in the world. Images in the exhibit compare it to the dome of the Texas capitol, ...

According to McDonald Observatory Director Taft Armandroff, the Hobby-Eberly telescope is one of the largest in the world. Images in the exhibit compare it to the dome of the Texas capitol ...

FORT DAVIS, Texas — The McDonald Observatory is a staple of West Texas history and identity, located almost 7,000 feet up in the Davis Mountains. The main telescope, the Hobby-Eberly, is one of ...

This episode of the KERA video series "The Shape of Texas" explores the architecture of the McDonald Observatory, where scientists study the stars - and you can too. The observatory's first ...

(light entertaining music) - [Instructor] McDonald Observatory sits perched 6,800 feet high atop the Davis Mountains of West Texas. On any clear night, as the sun sets, the massive steel and ...

MCDONALD OBSERVATORY, Texas — The Mcdonald Observatory is attracting visitors from all over the world who are making a stop before they head to their destinations to get in the path of totality ...

An Interactive Experience. Current Issue. April 1, 2025. View this Issue ...

A new 1-meter telescope is coming to The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory in the next two years. The Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) global network is expanding, and will build a ...

UNITED STATES – AUGUST 29: McDonald Observatory, operated by the University of Texas at Austin, and located in Fort Davis, Texas (Photo by Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images) ...

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 ...