When we visited Yerkes Observatory in 2021, it was closed and faced a daunting road back, yet its director had big plans. It ...

Those caveats have served as Yerkes’ artistic compass: US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith read “Life on Mars” under the gaze of the Great Refractor, the largest refracting telescope in the ...

With the 40-inch Yerkes telescope, he made splendid photographs of Jupiter. At the focus of this great telescope (over 60 feet in length) Jupiter when nearest the earth appears di rectly as an ...

He is the namesake for the Hubble telescope, launched in 1990. Even Albert Einstein visited the observatory. "Yerkes Observatory being the epicenter of astronomy, certainly in Wisconsin ...

COMPANIONS TO VEGA.—One of the proofs given as to the light-gathering power of the new Yerkes telescope is that Prof. Barnard has observed a new companion to Vega, which even the Lick telescope ...