An observatory on southern Arizona's highest mountain peak is reopening for public tours for the first time since March 2020, when they were paused because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tours of Mount ...
SUNY Geneseo this week quietly scratched its plan to award an honorary degree to a Vatican astronomer after realizing the Arizona observatory where he works was built despite the fervent opposition of ...
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SAFFORD - Wildfires on Mount Graham moved toward two mountain communities Sunday and continued to threaten an observatory that is home to some of the world’s most powerful telescopes. The fires have ...
PHOENIX — A troubled journey nears its end today with ceremonies dedicating what will be the world's most powerful optical telescope — some 20 years after its inception. Even now, the University of ...
Mount Graham's newly completed Large Binocular Telescope is now the most powerful optical telescope on — or off — Earth. With the combined resolution power of its two mirrors — cast and polished at ...
The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) will have a new director starting Sept. 1, 2005. Richard Green, currently director of Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), is making a move to the Large Binocular ...
A group of Indigenous activists and their allies will run from the San Carlos Apache Reservation to the summit of Mount Graham starting Thursday to honor one of their most sacred sites and to ...
The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) will have a new director starting Sept. 1, 2005. Richard Green, currently director of Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), is making a move to the Large Binocular ...