Jeff Hall stepped outside around 9:30 p.m., after attending a talk in Los Angeles a few years ago. As one would expect of an astronomer and the director of Lowell Observatory, his eyes went to the heavens. “The faintest thing I could see were the three bright stars in Orion’s Belt. You could maybe see 50 or 100 stars in the sky. If you are living in L.A., you don’t have a prayer to see the Milky Way.” Hall wonders how generations growing up in large cities will be impacted without a … [Read more...] about Lowell Observatory: Illuminating Ideas About the Dark
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Babbitt’s Helps With AZ Centennial Blanket
The Arizona Centennial Commission, the organization planning Arizona’s year-long statewide Centennial celebration in 2012, announces today that Pendleton Woolen Mills was selected to design, weave and market the official Arizona Centennial commemorative blanket. These historic, limited edition custom blankets were woven in the company’s Pacific NW mill located in Pendleton, Oregon. The custom blanket will be issued in a limited 150 “Governor’s Edition”, with each one numbered and … [Read more...] about Babbitt’s Helps With AZ Centennial Blanket
Festival of Science Underway in Flagstaff
The 2011 Flagstaff Festival of Science, through Oct. 2, promises celestial fireworks, soaring gas pillars and mystic mountains as Science Illuminates the far reaches of the universe through the windows of the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble astronaut, physicist and spacewalker Dr. John Grunsfeld kicked off the FREE 10-day event as the keynote presenter. Grunsfeld has circled our planet hundreds of times and conducted history-making space walks for surgical repairs on the orbiting … [Read more...] about Festival of Science Underway in Flagstaff
Getting Started–Building an Energy Star Home
Throughout the next series of articles, we will be chronicling the steps to build an energy efficient home based on a current project here in Flagstaff. We are building a house for a professor just north of NAU who is prioritizing energy efficiency. This first article covers the basics of getting started, and the next few months will dive deeper into the details. To earn the ENERGY STAR label, a home must meet strict guidelines for energy efficiency set by the U.S. Environmental Protection … [Read more...] about Getting Started–Building an Energy Star Home
