NOIRLab image of the week
Rocket Launch Dazzles Kitt Peak Visitors
Release date: May 7, 2025
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2519a/
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NOIRLab image of the week
Southwest of Tucson, the Quinlan Mountains majestically rise to an altitude of 2100 meters in the Schuk Toak District of the Tohono O’odham Nation. Atop the central peak in this image sits the Kitt Peak National Observatory.
📷 taken from the eastern side of Tucson on the Aqua Caliente Trail. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks (NSF NOIRLab)
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2502a/
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✧ Kitt Peak National Observatory ✧
Kitt Peak National Observatory is a United States astronomical observatory located on Kitt Peak in the Quinlan Mountains, 55 miles (88 km) southwest of Tucson, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert and the Tohono Oʼodham Nation. With more than twenty optical telescopes and two radio...
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The stars are down and the moon is up, making the comet harder to see. But if you have a digital camera with a 50 mm lens or bigger and you point it west a little above the horizon, you'll see it.
This is what I'm shooting right now. Phone snap of the LCD screen on the back of my camera. The comment above Kitt Peak Observatory, west of Tucson.
NOIRLab image of the week: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS over the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2440a/
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Black holes often appear in science fiction movies, largely because elements of their existence are still a mystery. They have fascinating impacts on the surrounding region of space too with distortions in space and time high on the list. A team of astronomers have found a supermassive black hole with twin jets blasting out an … Continue reading "Astronomers Find the Longest Black Hole Jets Ever Seen"
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