![Looking up at a large silver building, vaguely octagonal in shape, that contains the WIYN telescope. There is a blue sky behind it.](https://blogs.iu.edu/sciu/files/2017/04/WIYN-telescope-KPNO-yai2l9.jpg)
This post is from ScIU’s archives. It was originally published in July 2017, and has been lightly edited to reflect current events. If you aren’t in the field of astronomy, it may be hard to understand what we astronomers do. Surely we don’t set up small telescopes in our backyard to do research—most locations are… Read more »