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Kitt Peak National Observatory

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English: Kitt Peak National Observatory. The telescope on the top of the hill is the 4-meter Mayall Telescope. It looks the same today as it did in 1979 when I took the picture, but the inside has been recently "retrofitted to capture the light spectra from 35 million galaxies and reconstruct the Universe's history of expansion. [The] main aim: to elucidate the nature of dark energy, the enigmatic force that is pushing the Universe to accelerate at an ever-faster pace." (Nature, 15 August 2019, Vol. 572, 295.) Here's the journal's Website version of the article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02424-8 And here's a Wikipedia article about the telescope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_U._Mayall_Telescope
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Author Nicolas G. Mertens
Camera location31° 57′ 54.79″ N, 111° 35′ 53.92″ W  Heading=1° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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