Corinna Tellez

Kitt Peak renovations spare telescope, increase ‘global reach’

All StoriesCorinna Tellez12/05/20180

Kitt Peak National Observatory is receiving a two-year, $6.4 million transformation to save its historic solar telescope facility and renovate its aging visitor center. Built in 1962, the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope with its iconic V shape is about to be knocked out of first place as the world’s largest solar telescope. The government stopped funding…

Traffic trickles through Sasabe port

All StoriesCorinna Tellez11/06/20180

“Did you go out to the port in Nogales?” “No.” “So, then Douglas?” “No, not there either. I went out to the Sasabe port of entry. The Sasabe port of entry is the least-trafficked border crossing in Arizona. The port can be found right on the border of Sasabe, Arizona, and El Sasabe, Sonora, Mexico….