Kitt Peak's Mayall Telescope was also used to discover methane ice on Pluto in 1976. ... The first is that it has a large light-collecting area with a 3.8-meter-diameter [12.5 feet] ...

Using the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory, a Program of NSF NOIRLab, astronomers have discovered the extreme orbit of an exoplanet ...

On Friday, Kitt Peak National Observatory began a limited reopening program to welcome the public back after a three-year closure as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Contreras Fire.

The dim glow of safety lights shines out of the door of the WIYN 0.9 meter telescope where a tour group is using the instrument at Kitt Peak National Observatory in 2010.

Feb 12, 2018 Feb 12, 2018 Updated Dec 3, 2018; 2 min to read. 1 of 4 The giant Mayall 4-meter telescope, on the right at Kitt Peak National Observatory, will be transformed into ...

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory said the 12-meter telescope on Kitt Peak, the radio dish that gave birth to the field of millimeter-wavelength molecular astronomy, ...

The Kitt Peak National Observatory has one of the largest arrays of optical and ... including an 18-story telescope — the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope — that can be seen from over ...

The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory has a strangely elongated orbit. Credit: Images ...

The 3.5-meter (137-inch) WIYN on Kitt Peak near Tucson in Arizona is the newest of 27 telescopes on the mountain and collects some of the world’s sharpest images, ... By contrast, the four-meter ...

Kitt Peak National Observatory is providing unrivaled views of the night sky as part of a thousand-dollar package that offers ... The 0.5-meter telescope, ... it is recommended for guests 12 and up.

Meanwhile, the cloud of gas resembling the festive tree glows in green optical light, as seen with the National Science Foundation’s WIYN 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak in the Arizona-Sonoran ...