Kitt Peak is opening a new science center for visitors at a unique location: inside the observatory's distinctive, acute-angle-shaped McMath–Pierce solar telescope.
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- Bruce Joffe, South Tucson
USA operates the best observatories in the world, on ground and in space, that study our planet, Earth. That's about to change. Trump's budget…
- Henry Brean
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For Star subscribers: Scientists unveiled the first images from what they are calling “the greatest astronomical discovery machine ever built," and there are plenty of Tucson connections.
- Henry Brean
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The powerful, Tucson-born infrared eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope have notched another record for long-range viewing: the largest number of individual stars ever detected in the distant universe.
- Henry Brean
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The Science Center at Whipple Observatory in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson reopened to the public after a four-year COVID closure, but mountaintop telescope tours have not resumed.
- Henry Brean
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Kitt Peak National Observatory is celebrating 60 years of welcoming visitors to the moutnaintop collection of telescopes 55 miles southwest of Tucson.
- Mike Doe
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The 4-meter Mayall Telescope, left, at Kitt Peak National Observatory in 1975.
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The world's biggest, most powerful space telescope arrived at its observation post 1 million miles from Earth on Monday, a month after it lift…
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