Nice feature highlighting #astronomy research at @uofdenver.bsky.social! Always a treat to show off our beautiful observatory as well. 🔭🧪 @chamberlin-obs.bsky.social

What to expect: 1) The show continues overnight 2) There’s a chance that tomorrow night’s northern lights show is even better than tonight’s (more below). (Disclaimer: I am not a space weather meteorologist, but the folks below are, and I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express)

🚨HEY DENVER, GO LOOK AT THE SKY!!! 🚨 Never seen aurorae this good before. 🤯 They were totally naked-eye around 9:45pm from south Denver, bright red and green. They're coming and going, so if you don't see anything at first, try again later! Pics with an iPhone 13, 3-sec exposures

#Denver stargazers: come on over for an open house and star party with @denverastro.bsky.social TONIGHT, starting around 5pm! www.denverastro.org/events/open-...

Hey #Denver, it's going to be a beautiful night for a star party! ✨ Come on over for telescope viewing and building tours with @denverastro.bsky.social! We'll be looking at the Moon 🌙, Saturn 🪐, and at least one comet ☄️. FREE and fun for everyone! Info: www.facebook.com/events/72664...

🔭 Heads up, #Denver! Our next FREE star party is happening this Saturday! Come on over to look through our telescopes, tour the historic building, and meet our amazing @uofdenver.bsky.social physics students! ✨ Bonus: Saturn is back! 🪐 www.denverastro.org/events/open-...

Our beautiful historic telescope is featured in the back-to-school welcome message from @uofdenver.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yVO...

Next open house and star party will be Saturday, Sept. 27. Mark your calendars for science fun and stargazing with @denverastro.bsky.social!

Heads up, #Denver! Our next ✨ FREE ✨ stargazing event at @chamberlin-obs.bsky.social is happening next Saturday, 8/2! Come on over and let the experts of @denverastro.bsky.social show you the stars of late summer! (Note, start time is 8pm, not 8am as implied in the link 😄)

I wrote a thing! 🏞️🌌 www.grandcanyon.org/about/news/f...

I've been called many things, but this is a new one. 😆🤓 Thanks to Sahale Greenwood at Denver Life Magazine for the lovely profile! Also featuring @uofdenver.bsky.social, @chamberlin-obs.bsky.social, and @denverastro.bsky.social . 💖 www.denverlifemagazine.com/jennifer-hof...

Good morning, fellow astro-enthusiasts! It's June 1st, and we just unlocked two additional Astronomy Nights for this month - June 7th and 21st! That's 40 previously unavailable tickets. Book your slots now at denverastro.org/reservations @chamberlin-obs.bsky.social

#Denver #astronomy fans, come over to @chamberlin-obs.bsky.social tonight for some stargazing! I'll be there along with the physics students from @uofdenver.bsky.social and the lovely people from @denverastro.bsky.social . ✨🔭 Details --> www.denverastro.org

I was asked to join in a series of blog posts about the importance of public lands, so I wrote about how the Grand Canyon, and the Solar System, is so much more than a checklist of things to see. It inspires us to ask questions, learn, and grow: www.grandcanyon.org/about/news/g...

Hey #Denver, come on over for some stargazing with @denverastro.bsky.social this Saturday night! ✨🔭 www.denverastro.org/events/open-...

We just canceled a reservation for this evening, so we have FOUR TICKETS available immediately for tonight's Astronomy Night at 8:30 pm at @chamberlin-obs.bsky.social . Grab these now at denverastro.org/reservations! ***

#Denver stargazers, join us SATURDAY 4/5 for our monthly open house and star party with @denverastro.bsky.social! The Moon 🌓 will look lovely near Mars and Gemini, and Jupiter 👑 is still hanging out with the colorful bright stars in Taurus and Orion. FREE and great for kids! See you there! ✨🔭

🌟 The April 2025 edition of The Evening Sky Map is ready for download at skymaps.com/tesm/. The PDF includes a Sky Calendar and user-friendly star maps for the northern and southern hemispheres, as well as equatorial regions. Please share and enjoy exploring the Universe! 🔭 #astronomy #stargazing

Oh hey, happy equinox. For me it's always a nice reminder to ponder the interrelatedness of everything on Earth. The cosmos is lots bigger than us, but this is still the only home we know. What we do here matters.

Due to a few cancellations, we have some last-minute availability for Astronomy Nights over the next week. Three tickets are available for Thursday, March 13, and two for Tuesday, March 18th. Book your visit today! www.denverastro.org/public-night... @chamberlin-obs.bsky.social

Astronomers discover 128 new moons orbiting Saturn

What’s Up in Denver? March 10th through 16th, 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse, 3 Virtual Lectures, DAS Astronomy 101 begins, DAS Spring Banquet, the Gibbous moon makes its way across the sky, and more. www.denverastro.org/whats-up-in-... #denverastro #das #astronomy #eclipse

TONIGHT!!! The planets await!

Hey #Denver, join us for a #star and #planet party this Saturday! It will be chilly but clear, so bundle up and come on over to peek at Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and more! @denverastro.bsky.social members will be operating telescopes of all sizes for your viewing pleasure! ⭐🪐🔭

Hello, Mercury! 🪶 #planets #astronomy

Hey! All the planets are still visible tonight, and will be for one or two more (Saturn is getting lower and more difficult but Mercury is still getting higher, closer to Venus every night) so go out and look after sunset!

Good news about viewing the #planets from #Denver (or anywhere): the #alignment or #parade is not over! 🪐 You'll still be able to see multiple planets for several more weeks! Come to our open house / planet-gazing event on SATURDAY MARCH 8 to catch some of them through a telescope! 🔭

We have 2 Tickets available for TONIGHT'S (Feb 18th) , Astronomy Night! www.denverastro.org/public-night... We just had a reservation cancel and now have 2 more slots available to book immediately. Come enjoy the beautiful @chamberlin-obs.bsky.social!

Hi friends, here is a script for calling your representatives to express support for the federal indirect grant costs that support the observatory. Recommend contacting your 2 Senators, 1 Congressperson, and the state Attorney General.

#Denver #astronomy fans, come on over to Chamberlin Observatory for our open house tonight! It may be cloudy, but we still have a chance of seeing the Moon 🌓 and Venus 🟡. You can also tour the historic building! FYI, we are partly supported by federal grant funding. 💖

Particularly good evenings to look up: 1/31 and 2/1: crescent Moon 🌒 is near Venus and Saturn 2/6 through 2/9: waxing Moon 🌔 is near Jupiter and Mars #Denver folks, join us on 2/8 for our next open house event and telescope viewing! We may also spot Uranus 🔵 and Neptune 🟢!

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

Hey, I recognize that star! Go to the link to see the shells move! (h/t @emmalieb.bsky.social)

Keep your eyes open for lots of #planets in the night sky over the next several weeks (not just tonight)! Venus 🌟 and Saturn 🪐 are in the SW at sunset. Jupiter 👑 and Mars 🔴 are rising in the east at dusk and up all night. All are easy to see, and Saturn & Jupiter look great through binoculars!

Paper (and press release) week! 🧪🔭 I'm so excited to share this awesome research result from @emmalieb.bsky.social and me, in a collaboration between @uofdenver.bsky.social and @noirlabastro.bsky.social. We made a JWST time lapse to watch the dust shells around WR140 expand!

#Denver, did you see Mars 🔴 blink out behind the Moon 🌕? Watch for it to reappear in an hour, just before 8pm!

More fun astro-news: the Moon will occult Mars tonight for folks across the US! No special equipment required, just go out and watch the red planet disappear! 🔴🌕 www.space.com/stargazing/t...

Super cool news from @uofdenver.bsky.social astronomers!

Sorry, #Denver #astronomy fans, we had to cancel tonight's open house and stargazing event because of incoming winter weather. You get snow tonight instead of stars! ❄️❄️❄️ Next open house event is Saturday, February 8. Hope to see you there!

Think twice before gifting someone an M dwarf this holiday season

just remember this isn’t earth… it’s a COMET!!

I don’t know if anyone needs to hear this, but in 7 days the days start getting longer again. (It was me; I needed to hear this).

It pays to know your constellations! 😎

8 Tickets Available IMMEDIATELY for Tues., Dec 17 Astronomy Night! www.denverastro.org/public-night... If you've tried to book a visit & saw that we were booked at @chamberlin-obs.bsky.social thru '26, now is your chance to skip the wait and get in before the end of the year!

Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863. She was a pioneer of stellar classification and co-creator of the Harvard Classification Scheme. Over her lifetime she *manually* classified around 350,000 stars. (1/n) 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ Image: Harvard University, Radcliffe Archives

Urgent Announcement: 20 Tickets Available IMMEDIATELY for Sat, Dec 28 Astronomy Night! www.denverastro.org/public-night... If you've tried to book a visit & saw that we were booked at @chamberlin-obs.bsky.social thru '26, now is your chance to skip the wait and get in before the end of the year!

Thanks to all who joined us for a beautiful December open house! We had clear skies and enjoyed some lovely holiday music. Next free stargazing event is Saturday January 4! Find our full schedule at www.denverastro.org.

Thanks for joining us! Saturn was indeed looking beautiful tonight! 🪐💛

Another fond observatory memory! We think it's super important that kids get to learn about the night sky, and we're delighted to have helped so many do that! ✨

TONIGHT! 🪐🔭 Denver stargazers, come over to @chamberlin-obs.bsky.social after sunset to see Jupiter and Saturn, talk to the night sky experts from @denverastro.bsky.social, and hear some holiday music! Free and great for kids! www.denverastro.org/events/open-...