From CNN, Feb. 17, 2021: Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln explores what NASA’s Perserverance robot will land and what it could discover on Mars, including evidence of Martian life.
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From CNN, Feb. 4, 2021: Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln contextualizes a recent signal that some think may be a sign of extraterrestrial intelligence, explaining the hubbub around the recent a transmission originating from Proxima Centauri. With hope for hearing such a signal one day and pride for humanity’s legacy of looking skyward, Lincoln cautions against reading too much into this transmission, which hasn’t yet been vetted with scientific review.
On Dec. 20, 2020, on the day before the closest apparent approach, the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is visible from the MI-14 service building.
The moon and Venus were close on the evening of Feb. 27. This is the view just outside the Fermilab gym.
From National Public Radio, Oct. 11, 2016: Scientists using the Dark Energy Camera have discovered a new dwarf planet at the far reaches of our solar system.
Gregory Cisko used a Celestron 8SE telescope and a Celestron Skyris 132C video color camera to take this picture of Saturn. The image was made from nine videos, each about 10 seconds long. The image is made from stacking the 250 best frames from the 640-frame movie.
An enthusiastic group of sky-gazers gathered near Fermilab’s Geodesic Dome on Tuesday to view the transit of Venus.
A reflecting telescope was used to take this photo of Venus passing across the face of the sun on June 5.