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Image of lightning flashes at Kitt Peak at night.

Kitt Peak National Observatory
The world's largest collection of optical telescopes is located high above the Sonoran Desert under some of the finest night skies in the world. Kitt Peak, on the Tohono O'odham Reservation, is home to twenty-five optical and two radio telescopes representing eight astronomical research institutions.

The Milky Way shines bright in the Chilean sky over Cerro Tololo.

Cerro Tololo Inter-american Observatory (en Español)
Visitas a CTIO. Información para visitar el Observatorio Interamericano Cerro Tololo.

NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.

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