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Touring the Yerkes Observatory, a shrine of architecture and astronomy in Williams Bay

    In 2022, the Yerkes (pronounced YER-keys) was opened to visitors as the Foundation began an ongoing 10-year project to fully renovate and update the building and its facilities, all while offering tours and special events devoted to raising awareness about the project and to maintaining the Yerkes’ standing as a destination for astronomical and astrophysical study.

    This eclipse is one you don’t want to miss

      Fermilab’s Don Lincoln describes the annular eclipse that will occur this Saturday, Oct. 14. Break out your eclipse protective eyewear because the thin ring of sunlight that will encircle the moon is very bright even though Illinois is not in the path of maximum coverage.

      How fast is gravity, exactly?

        From Big Think, October 25, 2022: Don Lincoln explores the two theories of gravity from Newton and Einstein. Due to astronomers observations of gravitational waves recorded in 2017, we now know that gravity and light travel at the same speed.

        A photo of a woman with long, bright-orange hair, wearing sunglasses on top of her head and a light green T-shirt, smiling. Behind her, greenery.

        A minute with Aleksandra Ćiprijanović, astrophysicist

        Whether in Serbia or Chicago, Fermilab postdoctoral researcher Aleksandra Ćiprijanović is working to unlock the secrets of the night sky. As a member of the Deep Skies Lab, an international collaboration of physicists, she’s figuring out how to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to better handle the huge amounts of data needed for discovery science.