The former astronomical hot spot of the world is finding itself in a battle to remain relevant. Kitt Peak National Observatory, located about 55 miles southwest of Tucson, was founded in 1958. It is on the Quinlan Mountains on the Tohono O’odham Nation reservation and is at an elevation of roughly 7,000 feet. Director of…
Usually when people observe hot gas coming out of something, they are watching a politician deliver a speech. Astronomers have found objects that do the same thing but in a far more spectacular fashion. Quasars contain a supermassive black hole, with a disk of gas orbiting around the black hole and are most commonly found near…
By late 2018 Tucson-based World View Enterprises plans to fulfill the dreams of many by sending people into space. World View Enterprises, a private company, is the only near-space exploration company in Arizona. For $75,000 customers will be taken to an altitude of roughly 100,000 feet, and stay up there for hours before gently coming back…
Booking beachfront villas on the Amalfi Coast and vacationing on private yachts for the 1 percent will soon be replaced by trips that rocket outside of Earth’s atmosphere as innovations in space tourism continue to flourish in Tucson and around the United States. Commercial space travel may become a realistic goal as early as 2017,…
¿Pueden los humanos cultivar comida en Marte de la misma manera que el personaje de Matt Damon, en la película nueva de “Marte: Operación rescate”? Los científicos de la Universidad de Arizona dicen que sí, pero no necesariamente como lo hizo el héroe de la historia, Mark Watney. Los investigadores de la universidad han trabajado…
