Tag: Nicholas Tothill

They came to the South Pole, enduring months of bitter cold, darkness, and isolation, to peer at the galaxy’s center through clear, dry skies. And in December, they – scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) – declared “mission accomplished.” After 11 years, the Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory, AST/RO, was dismantled last…