Our partner Skymapper Inc has an active kickstarter campaign going to further the mission of making the night sky accessible and available to all! SkySphere Pictured As Seen on Kickstarter and Skymapper.io With the new equipment and creation of the SkySphere, so much more is possible now! It ushers and leads us into an age where so much more is readily accessible, and available making more of an ability to be involved in the citizen science sector no matter who or where you

We are pleased to announce that Mr. Tyler Bray will be joining Light-Year Astronomical Association in June as our newest Associate Researcher in Astronomy and Physics. He is a passionate young man in his Senior Year at Liberty University in the Undergraduate Physics program. He is notable for his hard work and dedication to his studies, research, and joining this position at Light-Year Astronomical Associaton to make a difference, and to also make astronomy and physics readil

We are proud to announce the collaborative partnership between Light-Year Astronomical Association and Skymapper Inc! In this partnership we maintain the goals to make astronomy accessible to all! No matter the background, origin, or community. We love what Franck Marchis and his team are doing at Skymapper and we are honored to be able to contribute in this dynamic with Skymapper through the use of the Light-Year Mobile Observatory Initiative and Skymapper's technology known

We had a phenomenal time at Thornton Library in Oxford, NC with the great local sci-fi author Faye Peacock Wilson. Faye invited us to the Oxford, NC Library to show a tour of the cosmos while she introduced people to her riveting sci-fi adventure "The Rescue". Our astronomer Rebekah Leigh Denton (Halley) gave a presentation of intereactive media we have taken with our telescope showing others the ideas behind the Mobile Observatory and future technologies that make Space read

Mars colonization has fired the imagination of humanity for decades. From Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter to the Martian rovers of...

Europa! Europa is Jupiter's fourth-largest natural satellite and the sixth-largest moon in the solar system. Europa is a fantastic frigid...