Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens: Guy Consolmagno ’74, SM ’75 profiled in the New Yorker
Guy Consolmagno, the head of the observatory, says of celestial revelations, “Even scientists who don’t believe in God have to believe in ‘Oh, my God.’” — Image credit: Marta Giaccone/The New Yorker.
Located in a 17th century palazzo in Castel Gandolfo just south of Rome, EAPS alumnus Guy Consolmagno ’74, SM ’75 has been the director of the Vatican Observatory for the past ten years. There he oversees the Vatican’s meteorite collection—one of the largest in the world—and studies the connection between them and the origin and evolution of small bodies in the early solar system. His path from a boyhood in Michigan to become the “Pope’s Astronomer” is a winding one that is beautifully documented in this profile by the New Yorker.
