Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ is Director of the the Vatican Observatory and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he earned undergraduate and masters’ degrees from MIT, and a Ph. D. in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona; he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard and MIT, served in the US Peace Corps (Kenya), and taught university physics at Lafayette College before entering the Jesuits in 1989.
At the Vatican Observatory since 1993, his research explores connections between meteorites, asteroids, and the evolution of small solar system bodies, observing Kuiper Belt comets with the Vatican’s 1.8 meter telescope in Arizona, and applying his measure of meteorite physical properties to understanding asteroid origins and structure. Along with more than 200 scientific publications, he is the author of a number of popular books including Turn Left at Orion (with Dan Davis), and most recently Would You Baptize an Extraterrestial? (with Father Paul Mueller, SJ). He also has hosted science programs for BBC Radio 4, been interviewed in numerous documentary films, appeared on The Colbert Report, and for more than ten years he has written a monthly science column for the British Catholic magazine, The Tablet.
Dr. Consolmagno’s work has taken him to every continent on Earth; for example, in 1996 he spent six weeks collecting meteorites with a NASA team on the blue ice regions of East Antarctica. He has served on the governing boards of the Meteoritical Society; the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences (of which he was chair in 2006-2007); and IAU Commission 16 (Planets and Satellites). In 2000, the small bodies nomenclature committee of the IAU named an asteroid, 4597 Consolmagno, in recognition of his work. In 2014 he received the Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences for excellence in public communication in planetary sciences.


Br. Guy’s Posts on the Vatican Observatory Foundation’s Sacred Space Astronomy Site
- Observing with the Bouchet Telescope
- ⓜ Full Moon-th Meetup with Dr. Daniel Britt: 27 November, 2023
- Giving Tuesday 2023 and Astrophoto Calendars
- The Stuff of Stars: a Podcast with Br. Bob Macke, SJ – repost and update
- Jesuits in a Spin: Society of Jesus, the Rotation of the Earth and the Coriolis Effect
- Fr. Juan Casanovas, Jesuit Solar Astronomer Gets Asteroid Named Him
- From the Backyard: State Your Intentions Earthling – Why We Do The Things We Do?
- Atlas Sunset
- Astrology for the Young at the Public Library
- Test Jeopardy Page
- From the Vatican Observatory Faith and Science pages (Younger Readers): Elizabeth Blackwell: First Woman Physician
- Vatican observatory director visits Providence College to discuss faith, science and the cosmos
- EAC Discovery Park finishes off MGIO Telescope Tours season with special events
- The Amazing Story of the Japanese Hayabusa Asteroid Sample Return Mission
- Maria Sibylla Merian: Artist, Scientist, Adventurer
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