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Taken with a 24-inch RC Optical Systems Telescope by Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona (Board of Regents) Okay. I’m going to admit it, I’m bummed that the US is ducking out of the space race. I’ve heard all the arguments, and I understand them. Yes, the government can be an inefficient mess of bureaucracy [...] I am a Life Sciences girl. Unlike many of my fellow skeptics, my interest in science cannot be traced to watching Cosmos as a kid. I happen to think large fuzzy animals are cool, but space is pretty cool too. However, I can easily recognize the incredible contribution that astrophysicists, like Carl Sagan and Neil [...] Saturday night I zoomed up the Catalina Highway, a 28-mile serpentine course through craggy mountains leading to the tippy-top of Mt. Lemmon. An impressive 9,157 feet above Tucson, Arizona, sits the Mt. Lemmon Observatory. Operated in conjunction with the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, Mt. Lemmon has a research station that is home to some [...] |
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