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Williams » Astronomy » News » Kwitter Awarded Observing Time with Hubble Telescope

Kwitter Awarded Observing Time with Hubble Telescope

July 21, 2011

Karen B. Kwitter, the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Astronomy at Williams College, and five colleagues have been granted observing time with the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope to study how planetary nebulae have contributed to the amounts of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Milky Way Galaxy.

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