star of the month

Jeff Hall stepped outside around 9:30 p.m., after attending a talk in Los Angeles a few years ago. As one would expect of an astronomer and the director of Lowell Observatory, his eyes went to the heavens. “The faintest thing I could see were the three bright stars in Orion’s Belt. You could maybe see 50 or 100 stars in the sky. If you are living in L.A., you don’t have a prayer to see the Milky Way.” Hall wonders how generations growing up in large cities will be impacted without a … [Read more...] about Lowell Observatory: Illuminating Ideas About the Dark