Vera Rubin at Work

Vera Rubin operated the No. 1 36-inch telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Kent Ford’s Image tube spectrograph is attached to the telescope.

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KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

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Id:noirlab2003a
Type:Photographic
Release date:Jan. 6, 2020, 3 a.m.
Related releases:noirlab2003
Size:2588 x 1918 px

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