Posts tagged astronomy

Just in time for Halloween, ETSU’s very own planetarium invited students and community members to look beyond the pumpkins and costumes this October with the …

The Harry D. Powell Astronomical Observatory was commissioned in 1999 and maintains state-of-the-art equipment for learning about the universe. While the observatory serves mainly as …

Saturday evening, members of the public gathered at the Harry D. Powell Observatory to glance through one of the high powered telescopes to see the …

There’s more to nothing than meets the eye. On Saturday Dec. 2, the ETSU Harry D. Powell Astronomical Observatory held an Open House. With the …

ETSU’s Dr. Beverly Smith is an intergalactic galaxy astronomer. This means that she studies the interactions between galaxies. Simply put, galaxies move, and when they get …

A Canadian-led international team of astronomers have recently discovered spots on the surface of the supergiant star Zeta Puppis that are causing large spiral structures …

“What you see depends on how you look,” says Richard Ignace, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at ETSU. Ignace has been …

On Saturday, Feb. 3, ETSU students and faculty took advantage of the clear night sky and gathered outside the Henry D. Powell Astronomical Observatory for …