In 1971, Carnegie put into operation the first telescope at its new observatory on Cerro Las Campanas in Chile. The Swope Telescope, a 1-meter (40-inch) reflector, is named after a former Carnegie ...

Previously, the telescope had stood on the top of a B&L building in Rochester, New York, until about 1941. The telescope was operational at SBO from 1953-1971. In 1971, the University received a grant ...

2MASS was a joint project of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Caltech, and the ...