Kitt Peak National Observatory

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Kitt Peak National Observatory is a program of NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory

Tucson, AZ
Vrijeme pridruživanja: prosinac 2010.

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  1. A glowworm crosses the road in front of the WIYN 3.5 meter telescope as the last of the summer Milky Way sets in the background.. The glowworm appears as a streak over the 10 second exposure

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    8. sij

    an instrument at of will produce science this year! Jason Wright shared his excitement for future discoveries at today. Keep an eye out for amazing discoveries from NEID & NSF's OIR Lab!

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    8. sij

    First light spectrum of 51 Pegasi as captured by on of . This image shows the light from the star, highly dispersed by NEID, from short wavelengths (bluer colors) to long wavelengths (redder colors).

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  4. The new press release, Cosmic Bubbles Reveal the First Stars, is being featured at . Astronomers detect first stars “bubbling out” from the cosmic dark ages. Read more here:

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  5. and are at the exhibit hall today! Talk to staff about astro data lab and how it'll help us !

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  7. The staff of Kitt Peak, a program of NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, wish you and yours a happy holiday season and hope your skies are clear, dark and full of stars!

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  8. On December 7th, NSF's OIR Lab welcomed students from around Tucson to the Teen Astronomy Cafe. Students learned about how to detect extrasolar planets from Dr. Daniel Apai. Students then tried their hand at analyzing data to find extrasolar planets.

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    27. stu 2019.

    w/a twist & a turn! While the path of Mercury across the Sun in fact traced a straight line, in this image the path appears to loop backwards due to an effect called field rotation as the telescope and camera track across the sky.

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  10. Did you see Jupiter and Venus together in the southwestern sky after sunset? They were closest together on Sunday night but you can still see them the next few nights and they will be joined by a crescent Moon. OIR Lab's Rob Sparks captured them Sunday night in Tucson

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  11. We look forward to an opportunity to assist w/ our scientific & engineering expertise in a process of developing industry standards that allow both satellite constellations & ground-based astronomy to co-exist. - AURA official statement regarding

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  12. The skies have cleared on Kitt Peak and we are now imaging the with students from Ha:san Preparatory and Leadership School in Tucson.

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  13. Check out the live stream of Mercury on the National Solar Observatory website from Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.

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  14. In partnership with students in the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, we will be simultaneously imaging the on Monday!

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    A new instrument DESI, installed on the Mayall Telescope has aimed its 5,000 fiber-optic eyes at the sky + captured its first images showing galaxies 11 billion lightyears away 🌌 Read more: 📽️:Mayall Telescope -NSF/AURA

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    obtained spectra of its first galaxies last week, using the Mayall Telescope at ’s . will soon use all 5000 of its robotic optical fiber positioners to measure 5000 galaxies at a time @berkleylab

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    It's ! Check out the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) which will study + the expansion of the universe. The team includes + 30 UK academic staff, funded by STFC🌌 👉 📷DESI focal plane

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    31. lis 2019.

    Happy Halloween! 🎃 This spooky image of the Ghost Nebula, located in constellation Cepheus, was taken with the Mayall 4-meter telescope at 👻 📷: //@AURADC/H. Schweiker & T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage

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    31. lis 2019.

    It's ! Our new dark energy instrument DESI on will study Milky Way stars and trace the dark matter halo of our galaxy to learn more about it!

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    28. lis 2019.

    With 5,000 robotic 'eyes' pointing at the sky, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument will soon begin to explore mysterious . Now, DESI's final testing has begun at .

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