Spotlight on Astronomy

The fourth annual Town-Gown Resource Fair drew wide interest from around the community, including educators looking for potential field trip destinations and learning activities for their elementary or secondary school children; residents interested in new places to take visiting relatives; members of social and governmental agencies seeking partners for initiatives.

Professor Martha Haynes discusses the CCAT-prime telescope project.

Celebrate with us Voyager missions & humankind's message to space. Oct 19th 8pm, Baily Hall.

After 360 engine burns, 2.5 million executed commands, 635 gigabytes of gathered data, 162 moon flybys, 4.9 billion miles traveled and 3,948 published papers, NASA’s 20-year Cassini spacecraft ran the last lap of its historic scientific mission Sept. 15.

“Great scientist, teacher, leader and friend,” reads the plaque on the newly named Terzian Conference Room on the sixth floor of the Spaces Sciences Building, unveiled in a ceremony on Aug. 31.

"Cassini — the robotic spacecraft orbiting Saturn — will meet its end Friday when it enters the atmosphere of Saturn after a 13-year odyssey exploring the gas giant’s spectacular rings, atmosphere and moons."

Next week, the Cassini spacecraft’s historic exploration will end with a dramatic crash into Saturn’s atmosphere.

The Cornell Astronomy Department hosted a guided eclipse-viewing event on the observatory’s grounds. Hundreds of students and townies alike lined up to receive a limited supply of eclipse glasses.  

TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE: Monday, August 21, 2017.  This will be the first total solar eclipse visible in the continental U.S. in 38 years.