Lowell Observatory comparing these measurements with a reference set of Sun-like stars. Lowell Observatory is building a major new reflecting telescope in partnership with Discovery Communications, located near Happy Jack, Arizona. This Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT), located within the Mogollon Rim Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest, is expected to be the fifth-largest telescope in the contiguous United States, and it will enable the astronomers of Lowell Observatory to enter new research areas deeper into outer space. The DCT and the research carried out there will be the focus of ongoing informative and educational television programs about astronomy, the sciences, and
Lowell Correctional Institution Lowell Correctional Institution Lowell Correctional Institution is a women's prison in unincorporated Marion County, Florida, north of Ocala. A part of the Florida Department of Corrections, it serves as the primary prison for women in the state. Almost 3,000 women are incarcerated in the complex, which includes the Lowell Annex. As of 2015 2,696 women are in the main Lowell CI, making it the largest prison for women in the United States; its prison population became larger than that of the Central California Women's Facility that year. It opened in April 1956 as the Florida Correctional Institution and was the