As some of the satellites zipped past the
Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, telescopes trained on the night sky captured streaks of reflected sunlight that marred their view of a far-off star system.
At the heart of the city's legacy is the
Lowell Observatory, where the solar system's outermost planet Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh back in 1930.
Flagstaff is the world's first designated "International Dark Sky City."
Lowell Observatory (lowell.edu) offers nightly Constellation Tours.
1930: American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto from a series of pictures taken the previous month at
Lowell Observatory.
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| 1930: American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto from a series of pictures taken at
Lowell Observatory. | 2005: Fox hunting became illegal in England and Wales.
That's because Central Oregon has better-than-average chances of clear skies, and because both NASA and the
Lowell Observatory selected Madras for eclipse-oriented events.
Planetary scientist Will Grundy of
Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., and colleagues used images of Charon taken by the New Horizons spacecraft and computational analysis to demonstrate that methane from Pluto is a reasonable culprit for Charon's rust-colored pole (shown here in a mosaic of images).
1930: American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto from a series of pictures taken the previous month at
Lowell Observatory. 2005: Fox hunting became illegal in England and Wales.