Scaffolding is going up around the Dunn Solar Telescope. It is the first step in a federal plan to raze the Sacramento Peak Observatory campus at Sunspot.
NSF’s own records show the agency began planning the demolition in 2022, four years before a mercury leak shut the observatory down. On Wednesday night, the small group working to stop it told an audience at the Ink Well Innovation Center in Alamogordo that it is running out of time.
“This is our chance … our last hurrah effort to stop this demolition,” said Heidi Sanchez, former operations manager of the Sunspot Visitor Center…