Lowell Observatory
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Lowell Observatory
Named after P. Lowell
Example Sentences
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Hubble got the lion’s share of the credit for this discovery, but Lowell Observatory astronomer Vesto Slipher, who noticed the same phenomenon but didn’t publish his data, also anticipated that result.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2025
Two weeks before my sojourn at Kitt Peak, I stood shivering in the late-night chill beneath the ponderosa pines around Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, gazing up at a lunar eclipse.
From Scientific American • Oct. 1, 2022
When Clyde Tombaugh, a young astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, discovered Pluto 90 years ago, it was a speck of light barely visible to the largest ground-based telescopes.
From Nature • Jul. 28, 2020
The Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., benefits from the same high desert conditions as the Atacama in Chile.
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2018
The Lowell Observatory, as you will recall, was a bit of an oddity thanks to Percival Lowell’s obsession with Martian canals, which in the 1910s made it, in every sense, an outpost of astronomical endeavor.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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