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@McDonald_Observatory has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in February 2021. The social media accounts linked to from @McDonald_Observatory are: • Facebook • Instagram • YouTube • X Besides social media accounts, McDonaldObservatory has populated their site with: • K-12 Education • Texas Podcast Network • Donate to our Education & Outreach Efforts • Introducing the Greater Big Bend Intl Dark Sky Reserve • James Webb Telescope Reveals Milky Way-like Galaxies in Young Universe - UT News • 🎉 Nominate a night-sky friend! • mcdonaldobservatory.org • 🍎 Teacher Workshops! • National Science Board Announces Federal Investment Recommendation | McDonald Observatory • JWST Awards UT Astronomers 10% of Its Observing Time! • Tour the historic 82-inch Otto Struve Telescope! • Discovery of the Second Y+Y Dwarf Binary System! • UT Austin Welcomes MIT to Giant Magellan Telescope International Consortium | McDonald Observatory • Local Properties Keep Our Stars Bright with Night Sky Friendly Lighting | McDonald Observatory • Live Deep Sky Tour: Orion | January 14, 2026 • Texas Science Festival 2026 • The StarDate Store — StarDate Online • ☘️✨ Spring Break 2026! • The Beloved Starry Skies Of West Texas - Curated Texan • A Sea of Light: HETDEX Astronomers Reveal Hidden Structures in the Young Universe! • 2026 Great Lecture by Keith Hawkins! • Dark Skies Festival! April 13-19 • Real Research, Real Data: The McDonald Observatory Student Experience • Live Deep Sky Tour: Dark Skies | April 8th • International Dark Sky Week • 40 Hours for the Forty Acres - Help keep StarDate going strong! • Live Deep Sky Tour: Exploring Galaxies | May 7, 2026 - YouTube • A JWST MIRI LRS Survey of 37 Massive Star-forming Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei at Cosmic Noon • IGRINS Confirms Link Between the Composition of Exoplanets and Their Host Stars! • Special Talk: NASA’s Artemis II Mission! • Black Hole Found that Formed Before Its Galaxy! • Journey into Spectroscopy • Live Solar Tour: History of Eclipses - YouTube • Dark Sky Defenders Raise Alarm Along the Border of West Texas - The New York Times • Live Deep Sky Tour: Exoplanet Exploration! • Recommended Lighting Practices • Family Astronomy - Live Moon Tour: Moon Phases & Eclipses | September 16, 2026 - YouTube • Dec 12th 🎙 Texas Standard Radio Live from McDonald Observatory! • UT Austin Astronomers to Play Leading Role in NASA’s Roman Space Telescope! • West Texas Businesses Preserve Night Sky – One Lightbulb at a Time | McDonald Observatory • Telescopes 101 Workshops! • McDonald Observatory YouTube • Astronomers Catch Massive Star’s Death from the First Explosive Moment – The McDonald Observatory • Giant Magellan Telescope Advances to National Science Foundation Final Design Phase! • 🍎 ✏️ 📚 Homeschool Days at The McDonald Observatory! • 🦋 Astronomers Investigate Complex Heart of a Cosmic Butterfly • One Idea, Two Cosmic Mysteries: Linking Little Red Dots and Globular Clusters – The McDonald Observatory • The Giant Magellan Telescope’s Final Mirror Fabrication Begins | McDonald Observatory • KASI Increases Investment in Giant Magellan Telescope! • Giant Magellan Telescope Enclosure Ready for Construction • HETDEX Opens Massive Cosmic Dataset! • 🔭 Evening Programs 🔭 • 🎙 The Texas Standard interviews Director Taft Armandroff • 💡 Lighting Recognition Program • Meet the Universe’s Earliest Confirmed Black Hole: A Monster at the Dawn of Time • Some Young Suns Align with Their Planet-forming Disks, Others Are Born Tilted | McDonald Observatory • Dark Skies and Dark Energy Converge in West Texas - The New York Times • ✨ Dark Skies Initiative • ⭐️ Bass Foundation Gift ⭐️ Strengthens Outreach at McDonald Observatory! • ✨ Visit McDonald Observatory! ✨ • 🦇 Stowaway Bat Returns Home! • ⭐️ Work with the Stars! ⭐️ • ✨ 🌈 IGRINS! 🌈 ✨ • 🌈 DIY Spectroscope! 🌈 • UT Astronomer Appointed President of Giant Magellan Telescope! • Elusive Stars 'Gobbling Up' Planets! • 📣 Taft Armandroff Elected to Chair Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors! • 🦇 Helpful Dark Skies Resources • Pioneering Instrument Returns to McDonald Observatory! • McDonald Observatory Homepage • Near-Infrared Spectrograph - Giant Magellan Telescope • StarDate Online | Your guide to the universe • Giant Magellan Telescope Expands Global Science Impact with Taiwanese Partner | McDonald Observatory • Galaxies Actively Forming in Early Universe Caught Feeding on Cold Gas! • 🎉 Observatory Remembers Harlan J. Smith on His 100th Birthday! 🎉 • UT Astronomers Peer Deeper into Mysterious Flame Nebula • Vast Molecular Cloud Discovered Near Our Solar System! • Live Deep Sky Tour: Galaxies! • Dark Skies Festival! • Northwestern University Joins Giant Magellan Telescope International Consortium! • 2025 Great Lecture: Adam Kraus - The Evolution of Planetary Systems Across Time and Space • Early Dark Energy Could Resolve Cosmology’s Two Biggest Puzzles • Giant Magellan Telescope Launches Universo Expansivo Program! • Astronomers Uncover Methane Emission on a Cold Brown Dwarf • Teacher Workshops | McDonald Observatory • ¿Por qué los planetas son redondos? • Will future generations see the stars the way we do? • Astrophotography Workshops! • Dark Sky Week 2024 • Two Eclipses Across Texas | McDonald Observatory • Total Solar Eclipse Livestream | April 8, 2024 • 2024 Great Lecture in Astronomy • McDonald Observatory Celebrates One-Year Anniversary of Greater Big Bend International Dark Sky Reserve | McDonald Observatory • New $2 Billion Telescope Will Be Fitted With A ‘Large Earth Finder’ • Searching for Supernovae in HETDEX Data | McDonald Observatory • McDonald Observatory Invites Ecological Research as a Texas Field Station | McDonald Observatory • webbtelescope.org • Webb Reveals Intricate Details in the Remains of a Dying Star – James Webb Space Telescope • Department of Energy Awards Wootton Center $6 Million for Research and Education | McDonald Observatory