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Arizona is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the Western and the Mountain states. It is the sixth largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona, one of the Four Corners states, is bordered by New Mexico to the east, Utah to the north, Nevada and California to the west, and Mexico to the south, as well as the southwestern corner of Colorado. Arizona's border with Mexico is 389 miles long, on the northern border of the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California. Arizona is the 48th state and last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the Union, a...
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Observatory Attractions In Arizona

  • 1. Lowell Observatory Flagstaff
    Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. Lowell Observatory was established in 1894, placing it among the oldest observatories in the United States, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965. In 2011, the Observatory was named one of The World's 100 Most Important Places by TIME. It was at the Lowell Observatory that the dwarf planet Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. The observatory was founded by astronomer Percival Lowell of Boston's Lowell family and is overseen by a sole trustee, a position historically handed down through the family. The first trustee was Lowell's third cousin Guy Lowell . Percival's nephew Roger Putnam served from 1927–1967, followed by Roger's son Michael , Michael's brother William Lowell ...
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  • 3. Discovery Park Safford
    Safford is a city in Graham County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 9,566. The city is the county seat of Graham County.Safford is the principal city of the Safford Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Graham county.
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  • 4. Mount Graham International Observatory Safford
    Mount Graham is a mountain in southeastern Arizona in the United States. The mountain reaches 10,724 feet in height. It is the highest elevation in Graham County, Coronado National Forest and the Pinaleño Mountains As the name Mount Graham is often used by locals to refer to the entire mountain range, the peak itself is frequently referred to as High Peak. It is twentieth of the 57 ultra prominent peaks of the lower 48 states, and the first of the five in Arizona.Mount Graham summits are headwaters for numerous perennial streams that tumble through five major botanical zones. Located between the southern Rocky Mountains and Mexico's Sierra Madre Occidental, and biologically isolated for millennia, the higher elevations have provided refuge for relict populations of plants and animals with...
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  • 6. Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium Tucson
    Grace Hodgson Flandrau was an American author of novels, short stories and journalistic pieces. Although she achieved a certain degree of critical acclaim for several of her novels, short stories and some of her journalism career during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, she faded from public literary view in the later part of her life. Flaudrau's reputation is re-emerging as a prominent writer due to a 2007 biography, which has been promoted by, among others, Garrison Keillor.
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  • 7. Steward Observatory Mirror Lab Tucson
    Steward Observatory is the research arm of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona . Its offices are located on the UA campus in Tucson, Arizona . Established in 1916, the first telescope and building were formally dedicated on April 23, 1923. It now operates, or is a partner in telescopes at five mountain-top locations in Arizona, one in New Mexico, one in Hawaii, and one in Chile. It has provided instruments for three different space telescopes and numerous terrestrial ones. Steward also has one of the few facilities in the world that can cast and figure the very large primary mirrors used in telescopes built in the past decade.
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  • 10. Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter Observatory Mount Lemmon
    , with a summit elevation of 9,159 feet , is the highest point in the Santa Catalina Mountains. It is located in the Coronado National Forest north of Tucson, Arizona, United States. Mount Lemmon was named for botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon, who trekked to the top of the mountain with her husband and E. O. Stratton, a local rancher, by horse and foot in 1881. It is reported that Mount Lemmon Ski Valley, on the mountain's northeastern side, receives 200 inches of snow annually.
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