Eventually it may become a rocky ghost, its glory days gone for good. Kitt Peak's solar telescope is bored right into the mountain, with mirrors on top that can be oriented to follow the sun's ...

“Despite the fact that it’s been around for 60 years, you could argue that in many ways, the Golden Age of Discovery for some ...

We describe the SpArc science gateway for spectral data obtained using the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) in operation at the Mayall 4-m telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory during ...

ABSTRACT Recent (1998–1999) absolute spectrophotometry of the night sky over two southern Arizona astronomical sites, Kitt Peak and Mount Hopkins, is compared to similar data obtained in 1988 at each ...

Installed on the Mayall telescope on Kitt Peak in Southern Arizona, DESI's 5000 independently operated robots can measure the light from thousands of galaxies at once. Join us as we explore the ...