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Having a Blast at Kitt Peak
Soaring above the Visitor Center Levine 0.4-meter Telescope at NSF Kitt Peak National Observatory ( KPNO ), a Program of NSF NOIRLab, is a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching a satellite into Earth’s orbit. This rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in central California, about 550 miles from Kitt Peak. Although the Sun had already set at Kitt Peak, sunlight high above the horizon still illuminated the…
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- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
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- Kitt Peak National Observatory
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- CC BY 4.0 — credit required
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- NOIRLab release page
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