Claude Plymate calls his backyard home observatory the clubhouse that he never had as a child. The solar astronomer and his wife, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, ordered the white 10-by-10-foot domed ...

Sensitive equipment and historical artifacts — including the Mills spectrograph used in the observatory’s early days to measure the colors of light emitted by stars and galaxies — were wheeled out as ...

With unnerving precision and skill, the three-ton steel dome was lowered into place and anchored to the masonry. With its aluminized coating to prevent corrosion, this new shelter now sits atop ...

Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO)—Southern California’s esteemed home to several of the most groundbreaking astronomical discoveries in history—is pleased to present the seventh “Sunday Afternoon ...

SPRINGFIELD — The Stellaphane Observatory National Historic Landmark of Springfield received an early present this holiday season: a donated observatory dome that was almost sold as scrap metal. The ...

I’ve been to my fair share of live music performances, held everywhere from Radio City Music Hall to college dorm rooms. The first concert I saw was the Jonas Brothers in New York City’s Central Park ...

Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO)—Southern California’s esteemed home to several of the most groundbreaking astronomical discoveries in history—is pleased to present the eighth “Sunday Afternoon Concerts ...

Near the small town of Herstmonceux in the English county of East Sussex sits the former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The Royal Observatory Greenwich was first built in Greenwich, London, ...

A second dome has been opened at a Cornish observatory after undergoing restoration. The first dome at the Observatory for ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV)— Thursday evening, Indiana State University reopened the John C. Hook Memorial Observatory dome after being closed for more than 20 years. The university hosted a grand ...