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Charlotte Browning's mixed media collage featuring the Otto Struve Telescope won Best of Show in the elementary school category of McDonald Observatory's art contest celebrating our 75th anniversary on April 26, 2014. Charlotte is in kindergarten at Marfa Montessori School. Credit: Charlotte Browning

Rafael Riegel's pencil drawing of the Otto Struve Telescope won Best of Show in the junior high-high school category of McDonald Observatory's art contest celebrating our 75th anniversary on April 26, 2014. Rafael is a sophomore at Fort Davis High School. Credit: Rafael Riegel

Super Planet Crash is an online game created by Univ. of Texas astronomer Dr. Stefano Meschiari in conjunction with Dr. Greg Laughlin and others at The University of Calif., Santa Cruz. Credit: Systemic Collaboration

Systemic Live is an educational website to help the public understand more about extrasolar planets, created by Univ. of Texas astronomer Dr. Stefano Meschiari in conjunction with Dr. Greg Laughlin and others at The University of Calif., Santa Cruz. Credit: Systemic Live Collaboration

This poster was created to commemorate the 75th anniversary of McDonald Observatory. Credit: McDonald Observatory

McDonald Observatory is celebrating its 75th anniversary from September 2013 through August 2014. The anniversary logo may be used to promote official anniversary events. If you have questions about acceptable use, or need a different file type of the logo, please contact observatory press officer Rebecca Johnson.

Central Texas high school students participated in a week-long research experience at McDonald Observatory in June 2012. Here the students visit the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. Credit: Irina Marinova/McDonald Observatory

Dr. Mary Kay Hemenway was presented with the American Astronomical Society's Education Prize by AAS President Dr. John Huchra (left), in Washington, D.C. in January 2010. (Credit: Richard Dreiser/AAS)

AEP Texas has granted $3,000 to McDonald Observatory to fund scholarships for West Texas schoolchildrent to visit the Observatory during the 2009-2010 school year. Pictured with presentation check, left to right, are: Sandra Preston (Observatory Assistant Director for Education and Outreach), Joel Barna (Observatory Development Officer), Graham Dodson of AEP Texas, and Dr. David L. Lambert (Director of McDonald Observatory).

The Lonestar supercomputer is a resource of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. It is a Dell Linux cluster with 5,840 processing cores, and a peak performance of 62 teraflops (62 trillion floating-point operations per second). Since its launch in 2006, Lonestar has provided more than 85 million computing hours to approximately 1,100 researchers across the nation. Credit: TACC/UT-Austin