The sun sets behind the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, in Rome, on Feb. 20, 2023. Pope Gregory ... what is now known as the Gregorian calendar. The Vatican Observatory traces its 1582 origins ...

the Vatican Observatory said in a press release Feb. 28. There are now 32 asteroids named after Jesuits. Three Jesuit astronomers and the 16th-century pope who commissioned the Gregorian calendar ...

Astronomers gathered at the Vatican Observatory this month to hear the results of major research into thousands of previously hidden galaxies that the Milky Way has long obscured. A press ...

who built an observatory — known as the Tower of the Winds — inside the Vatican so that astronomers could study the reform of the Julian calendar, which was in use until 1582. Gregory ...

leading to his namesake Gregorian calendar, still in use today. The other three names honor Jesuit priests who work or worked at the Vatican Observatory. “562971 Johannhagen” honors Jesuit ...

Brother Robert Macke, known to many of his colleagues as “Brother Bob,” is a Jesuit astronomer at the Vatican Observatory and one of the world’s foremost experts in the study of meteorites.

A student from the 2023 cohort at the Vatican Observatory Summer School presents to other students on June 29. (EarthBeat photo/Christopher White) Jesuit Fr. Williams Dhelonga of the Democratic ...

SUNY Geneseo this week quietly scratched its plan to award an honorary degree to a Vatican astronomer after realizing the Arizona observatory where he works was built despite the fervent ...

The Vatican Observatory traces its 1582 origins to Gregory’s pontificate and the Gregorian calendar reform. Located at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo in the hills south of Rome ...

The Vatican Observatory traces its 1582 origins to Gregory’s pontificate and the Gregorian calendar reform. Located at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo in the hills south of Rome ...