EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialKatie Carolan, a telescope demonstrator, poses with the 12-inch Zeiss refracting telescope at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, July 27, 2022. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)