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    The anatomy of an enigma: a team of astronomers using the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (LBT) atop Mount Graham in southeastern Arizona collected 17 hours’ worth of light from the abnormally massive elliptical galaxy dubbed C1-23152 (image above). The young galaxy is 12 billion light years away and defies conventional models of its origins as it must have accumulated its enormous mass within 1.8 billion years after the big bang, less than 13% of the present age of the universe. Most elliptical galaxies, such as C1-23152 at the center of a galaxy cluster, take many billions of ...

By Jan Cleere Special to the Arizona Daily Star By the time Mary Stacey arrived in Arizona territory, she claimed she had traveled across the continent six times. She often wrote to her mother about her adventures traveling from one military post to another and her mother sent Mary’s letters to the local newspaper for publication, particularly when her daughter headed across Arizona’s weird and wonderful desert wilderness. Petite, golden-haired Mary Henrietta Banks was born July 9, 1846, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. She married soldier May Humphreys Stacey on Dec. 9, ...

A Mt. Graham red squirrel matriarch. (Photo by Robin Silver) TUCSON, Ariz. (CN) — Encroaching development and wildfires exacerbated by climate change have conspired to leave a squirrel species unique to a tiny niche of Arizona forest teetering near extinction. Mt. Graham, a 10,000-foot peak in the Pinaleño Mountains, is home to a University of Arizona observatory, a telescope owned by the Vatican, an abandoned church camp, and 14 privately owned summer cabins — all of which threaten the Mt. Graham red squirrel. The sub-species, thought to be extinct by the 1950s but rediscovered in the 1...

works cover so many of any interests and parks, climate change, communications, and women and the environment, and the future of the southwest. we'd like to thank the university medical center for sponsoring this venue, and kxpi radio. the presentations will last for approximately one hour, including questions and answers, so please hold your questions to the end. at the conclusion of this session, all of the authors, except for dyana furmansky, who had to jump on a plane -- all of the authors will be signing their books or meeting with you at the media tent b, which is located south...

.. >> okay, let's get started. today we have a real treat. i think we all understand after wandering around these beautiful exhibits outside and a perfect day that we have today that tucson is a special place not only for the wonderful people that live here, but for the clear skies. so today we have a talk from two special authors, doug isbell and stephen strom that are going to talk about the observatories of the southwest and of course we all know why they are here and we have all been curious i think what goes on in those buildings on top of the mountains that you can see driving ...