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The observatory offers daytime and nighttime tours focused on astronomy education and scientific discovery, inviting visitors to explore historic telescopes, current research projects, and star gazing experiences.
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- Analeise Mayor
Just an hour southwest of Tucson, high above the Sonoran desert, sits Kitt Peak National Observatory, an astronomical observatory that has ins…
- Eric Lagatta USA TODAY NETWORK
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Arizona plays a central role in a daring NASA mission: It will soon attempt to stave off the death of one of its space telescopes in danger of…
- Prerana Sannappanavar
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Two University of Arizona faculty members have been awarded prestigious 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships: Award-winning playwright Elaine Romero an…
- Henry Brean
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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.
- Henry Brean, Arizona Daily Star
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The new telescope will scan the sky for 10 years straight with mirrors made in Tucson.
Webb Telescope spies record number of stars billions of light years away- 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, Arizona Daily Star
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Watch old footage of one astronomer's 1956 scouting trip up the mountain
- Henry Brean/Arizona Daily Star
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University of Arizona-led astronomy mission breaks NASA record for balloon science
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