Dr. Prouse says Jupiter is a very popular star for amateurs to look at, and soon Venus will grow to be the brightest star in the sky. He says Venus will probably be this year's Christmas star. The University owns the McDonald Astronomical Observatory in the Davis Mountains, and maintains it with the co-operation of the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago. The University pays one fourth of the up-keep, including publishing excerpts from reports of researchers under the University's name, and the Yerkes Observatory operates the observatory. Research findings are printed at the University of Chicago Press.
Radio astronomy is a branch of electrical engineering.
It looks at the stars through a recently discovered medium- the microwave. Bob Fannin of the electrical engineering research laboratory is a researcher in radio astronomy.