News: McDonald Observatory

The explosive compound forms naturally in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, but on Earth it is also a byproduct of anaerobic life.

Village Fresh Greenhouse Grown, the Brewster County Courthouse and Terlingua Ranch Lodge are the latest to adopt lighting that benefits astronomers and skywatchers.

The private research university becomes the 16th member of the international consortium advancing the GMT.

The James Webb Space Telescope offers a new view of a planetary nebula located about 3,400 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.

The galaxy contains far more star-forming clumps than current theoretical models can explain.

Lauren Biddle, a UT postdoc, finds about one-third of young Sun-like stars are born with misaligned protoplanetary disks.

A Big Freetail bat nicknamed Hubble apparently hitched a ride from McDonald Observatory to Austin in astronomy gear.

Over 250 hours of observations from the world’s most powerful telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, are freely available to the public.

Their work will support the CFC's mission to uncover the origin of galaxies, black holes and stars in the early universe.

One of the largest single structures in the sky, the cloud is about 40 moons across, but not visible to the unaided eye.