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Vera Rubin at the Kitt Peak National Observatory

Vera Rubin at the Kitt Peak National Observatory
Vera Rubin at the Kitt Peak National Observatory Vera Rubin operating the Kitt Peak National Observatory's 36-inch telescope. Kent Ford’s Image tube spectrograph is attached to the telescope. With Ford, she continued using the Kitt Peak 2.1-meter, accumulating over 60 galaxy rotation curves over the following years. KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA