Stars and the Milky Way Wheel over the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope

Stars and the Milky Way rotate in this timelapse video captured at the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. At one point the largest solar telescope in the world, the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope was decommissioned in 2017 and is being converted to the NOIRLab Windows on the Universe Center for Astronomy Outreach.

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KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks

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Id:2025_04_03-McMath-Pierce-TLS-Rob-CC1
Release date:May 21, 2025, 1:43 p.m.
Duration:32 s
Frame rate:29.97

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