Located up four flights of stairs, through a black locked gate and up a steep flight of metal rungs is the Calvin College Observatory. The observatory is open to the public, students and astronomers alike. Calvin...

Hello and welcome to this year’s first edition of Observatory Corner! Initial weather forecasts continue to look promising throughout the weekend and through Monday and Tuesday, but Wednesday and Thursday...

This week the observatory will be open during clear weather from 7:30 to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday. The weather appears to be best on Monday and Thursday, but there is still a chance that clouds...

Looking up in the night sky, space looks like a black-and-white world. Sure, there are famous exceptions like red Betelgeuse, but most stars look just white, or even gray. But there is in fact color in...

Maybe in your campus wanderings you’ve seen the big white bump on top of the Science Building. One of the highest places on campus, this is the Calvin Observatory, where the Physics and Astronomy department...