The Westport Astronomical Society has a dome through which the mysteries and wonders of the universe may be glimpsed on a clear night. But one dome isn’t enough. The organization was recently gifted a ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Saturday is National Astronomy Day, the semi-annual event that celebrates the observation of the heavens. Science museums, universities, and astronomy groups have various events to pique public ...

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 ...

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 ...

The green, copper-topped observatory dome of the Buffalo Museum of Science that pops into view along the Kensington Expressway is at the center of a new $1.5 million fundraising push announced Friday.