AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new exhibit at the Texas Science and Natural History Museum is bringing the McDonald Observatory to the University of Texas campus. The “Big Eye on Dark Skies” exhibit opened this ...

MCDONALD OBSERVATORY, Texas — The Mcdonald Observatory is attracting visitors from all over the world who are making a stop before they head to their destinations to get in the path of totality to ...

DAVIS MOUNTAINS STATE PARK, Texas — It's a packed night at McDonald Observatory, where dozens of people are crowding around high-powered telescopes as a thunderstorm rolls off to the east. Locals and ...

Apr. 29—Join McDonald Observatory May 7-11 for Dark Sky Week, a celebration of the famous night skies of Far West Texas. Event programming includes special access tours of two of the observatory's ...

The University of Texas McDonald Observatory high on Mt. Locke in the Davis Mountains is an internationally recognized center for astronomical research. It also invites the public to experience the ...

AUSTIN - They built the McDonald Observatory in darkest West Texas for a reason. But white hot population growth and petroleum production are threatening its unobstructed view of the heavens and the ...

SAN ANTONIO -- The growing oil and gas industry has been great for West Texas, but the growth has brought with it increased light pollution, especially at the McDonald Observatory, located within the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new exhibit at the Texas Science and Natural History Museum is bringing the McDonald Observatory to the University of Texas campus. UNITED STATES – AUGUST 29: McDonald Observatory, ...

The Texas Science and Natural History museum has opened a new exhibit, "Big Eye on Dark Skies," which features a scale model of the Hobby-Eberly telescope, one of the world's most powerful telescopes.