Photojournalist Mark Mahoney first picked up a Kodak Instamatic camera on a family vacation in 1965, when he was 13 years old. He was immediately hooked and has been a
In this series, The Daily is diving into key historical events and researching prominent figures from Evanston and Northwestern’s pasts. When Kevin Leonard (WCAS ’77) was an undergraduate at NU, Highlights of Astronomy was a popular class — primarily because of the course’s professor, Josef Allen Hynek. “When I got here, he was a subject.
In January, Science Magazine named the new James Webb Space Telescope as its Scientific Breakthrough of the Year for 2022. The new space telescope, named after James Webb, a former NASA administrator but now officially referred to as ‘JWST,’ has been described as “the gold-plated wunderkind of astronomy.”