by News Staff | Jun 30, 2015 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy From mid-June to July 10, a procession of telescopes and their California Highway Patrol escorts will crawl down State Route 168 from Cedar Flat to the Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Big Ears, on the valley floor just north of Big Pine, stopping traffic...
by News Staff | Jun 9, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
On Saturday morning at Cedar Flat off Highway 168, 13 miles east of Highway 395, as many as 300 people walked through the famous radio astronomy observatory known as CARMA for the annual Open House. The weather was perfect. Locals and visitors, mostly ages over 60 and...
by News Staff | Jun 4, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
(Press Release) The community is invited to attend an open house on Saturday, June 7th at CARMA, the Northern Hemisphere’s largest millimeter-wave radio observatory. This free event is a rare opportunity to view state-of-the-art telescopes and control...
by News Staff | Dec 8, 2011 | Government Agencies/Utilities
NASA recently announced the discovery of a new planet, 600 light years away, that could support life as we know it. NASA calls the new planet Kepler 22-b and says that it marks the best candidate yet for a life-bearing world beyond our solar system. Locally, the...