A Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist is part of a team of scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope to study how the changing patterns of shadows cast on the dusty disks orbiting young ...

Some people have a gift for creating beautiful works of art. Others appreciate art but do not have the talent to create it.

Students review the stick's shadow pattern. Students are asked to use a model to figure out where the Sun was in the sky to create the shadow pattern they observed. ----- Transcript: In the ...

All three of these astronomical alignments provide astronomers with opportunities to study our solar system and galaxy. And, all three involve shadows! What’s the difference between the three, you ask ...