TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — 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 ...

After being closed to the public for more than three years — first due to COVID and later because of damage from a wildfire — Kitt Peak National Observatory reopened to visitors Friday. “After a long ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Less than 50 miles from Tucson, Kitt Peak National Observatory is light years away when it comes to researching the universe. Kitt Peak is home to arguably the largest ...

Claude Plymate calls his backyard home observatory the clubhouse that he never had as a child. The solar astronomer and his wife, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, ordered the white 10-by-10-foot domed ...