Kitt Peak National Observatory marks 60 years of public tours
TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News)—Kitt Peak National Observatory will celebrate 60 years of public tours on September 27, after a ...
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DESI’s New Findings Confirm Einstein’s Gravity Works Over Billions of Light-Years
At Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, a telescope views far into the cosmos recording the locations of millions of galaxies. The four-meter telescope is currently mapping the ...
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Towering task: Astronomy buffs fight to save shuttered observatory near Pontiac
A key recommendation of the panel called for the creation of a national observatory — a vision realized in 1958 with the establishment of the Kitt Peak National Observatory in the Quinlan ...
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Year’s Strongest Meteor Shower Has Begun: When To See The Geminids At Their Best
Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, in Arizona. Is there a meteor shower tonight? The Geminids, the northern hemisphere’s ...
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The Spectrum of the Night Sky over Mount Hopkins and Kitt Peak: Changes after a Decade
Kitt Peak and Mount Hopkins, is compared to similar data obtained in 1988 at each site. The current zenith sky brightness in the range ∼3700–6700 Šis essentially identical at the two sites and is as ...