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name: Travis Rector
about: Dr. Travis A. Rector is an astronomer at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). In the last 20 years he has made over 200 beautiful images of space using the giant telescopes at Kitt Peak National Observatory, Gemini Observatory, and others (including Hubble). Dr. Rector earned a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Colorado. He was then a postdoctoral research scientist at Kitt Peak and a Karl Jansky fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in New Mexico. He joined the physics and astronomy department at UAA in 2003.