The Kitt Peak National Observatory is about 50 miles outside of Tucson on a remote mountaintop that rises high above the Sonoran Desert. Just below the summit, the 4-meter Mayall telescope is the ...
The observatory remains an "active fire fighting" area. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A raging wildfire is "mostly holding" at ...
Astronomers fear at least one of the telescopes on Mount Graham sustained heat damage when winds swept the Frye Fire across the highest peaks of the Pinaleno Mountains last weekend. The Vatican ...
A journey of 335 million miles begins at 6,875 feet. It does for me, anyway, as I stand on an Arizona mountaintop on a dazzling March night counting Jupiter’s moons. I am at the Kitt Peak National ...