20-06-2022, 08:55 AM
PUBLISHED 41 MINS AGO
ARIZONA (NYTIMES) Astronomers watched in fear over the past week as a growing wildfire crept up an Arizona mountainside toward the Kitt Peak National Observatory, forcing 40 people to evacuate days before the blaze destroyed four buildings early Friday (June 17).
The fire, known as the Contreras fire, has scorched more than 7200 ha twisting among indigenous-populated areas in the state near Tucson, and scientists might not be able to return to the observatory for weeks.
But its telescopes, which number in the dozens, remained safe as of Sunday afternoon
More details at: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/unite...-buildings
ARIZONA (NYTIMES) Astronomers watched in fear over the past week as a growing wildfire crept up an Arizona mountainside toward the Kitt Peak National Observatory, forcing 40 people to evacuate days before the blaze destroyed four buildings early Friday (June 17).
The fire, known as the Contreras fire, has scorched more than 7200 ha twisting among indigenous-populated areas in the state near Tucson, and scientists might not be able to return to the observatory for weeks.
But its telescopes, which number in the dozens, remained safe as of Sunday afternoon
More details at: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/unite...-buildings