Best Observatory Tucson Near Me

4worldlovers:
Explore the night skies at Spencer’s Observatory, located next to Cat Mountain Lodge and Roadside Inn. Whether it’s your first experience or you’ve been stargazing in Tucson for years, you will enjoy a personalized guided star tour of Southwest Arizona’s dark skies with several large telescopes. This custom-built observatory has a private patio with a retractable roof that offers a comfortable and peaceful place to indulge your astronomy bug. Our patio opens up to a panoramic view of the exceptionally dark skies that blanket the Tucson Mountain Range and is home to a Celestron 14” SCT telescope on a GoTo Mount, a 10” Meade LX200 SCG telescope and a Piggy Back 4” Stellar View Refractor. Enjoy Arizona’s beautiful evenings with a star party under Tucson’s dark skies – give us a call to book your tour today!

4worldlovers:
Dr. Jaclyn Champagne, our JASPER post-doc researcher in the UA Astronomy Department, is hard at work using James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data to map out rapidly forming galaxy neighborhoods—protoclusters—and to understand if these cosmic cities are the birthplace of extraordinarily luminous quasars. The wide-field slitless spectrograph aboard JWST has revolutionized the search for these galactic neighborhoods in the early universe, where astronomers are observing “colliding galaxies, growing black holes and great swarms of gas that will eventually become the next generation of stars.” Learn about Jackie’s work in her latest article for The Conversation, ...


GUSTO Balloon Observatory Mission Ships Out in Preparation for Antarctic Launch

On July 3, the integrated gondola and payload for NASA’s Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) was shipped from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, on a long route to Antarctica.

4worldlovers: On the morning of 1 August 2023 NSF’s NOIRLab detected a cyber incident in its computer systems, forcing the suspension of astronomical observations at Gemini North in Hawai‘i. The Gemini website and proposal tools are currently offline but the NOIRLab website remains online. Read more here.

4worldlovers: Financial support for Rubin Observatory comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Cooperative Support Agreement No. 1202910, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515, and private funding raised by the LSST Corporation. The NSF-funded Rubin Observatory Project Office for construction was established as an operating center under management of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA). The DOE-funded effort to build the Rubin Observatory LSST Camera (LSSTCam) is managed by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC).

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science. NSF supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.