The journey to my chosen site (Lampasas, Texas, to celebrate or cry with other Airstreamers) has entailed a long and wild road trip in my Interstate van. I pulled over for roadside oddities and tiki bars through California, Arizona, and New Mexico to reach the Texas border at El Paso. ...
Which upcoming lunar and solar eclipses are visible in Tempe, Arizona, USA, and what do they look like?
The total lunar eclipse of April 15, 2014, was seen by a telescope at the University of Arizona's Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter. (Image credit: Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona) Skywatchers across much of the world will have the chance to see the moon glowing with an eerie red ...
"The time is right, as the new detections prove, to advance to 0.87mm," said Remo Tilanus of the University of Arizona, who is the EHT's Operations Manager. The greater resolution won't just sharpen the image of the photon ring around each black hole, but also more precisely depict th...
Arizona: Sonoran hot dog The state's significant Mexican influence and proximity to Sonora, Mexico, make this iconic borderland sandwich an Arizona favorite. The Sonoran hot dog features a bacon-wrapped hot dog stuffed into a bolillo roll and topped with pinto beans, onions, tomatoes, jalapeños...
University of Arizona, Department of Astronomy, Tucson, AZ 3 Naval Observatory, Washington, DC 4 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 5 University of Michigan, Department of Astronomy, Ann Arbor, MI 6
A NASA spacecraft is just 11 days away from a historic rendezvous with an asteroid the size of Arizona. NASA's Dawn probe should enter into orbit around Vesta on July 16, becoming the first spacecraft to visit the 330-mile-wide (530-kilometer) space rock — the second-largest object in...
Those who want to get the best view of the eclipse can join astronomer Glenn Schneider on a charter flight that will follow the path of the eclipse from a plane and thereby extend totality to around 8 or 9 minutes. Schneider, an astronomer at the University of Arizona,plans to charter a...