Lowell Observatory
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Lowell Observatory
Named after P. Lowell
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The most important thing you'll need to know where to look and have a good view of the horizon, according to Nick Moscowitz, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
From Salon • Sep. 27, 2024
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
Following a lead by the astronomer V. M. Slipher at Lowell Observatory, they began measuring the spectra of distant galaxies.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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