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With a highly reflective, silvery surface, the Rubin Observatory's main mirror acts both as its primary and tertiary light-collecting surface.
June 24, 2025

U of A astronomers celebrate first look at the universe from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

A rendering showing what the Giant Magellan Telescope will look like at nighttime, once completed. The enclosure is opened for nighttime observation, while the Milky Way rises behind the mountains.
June 23, 2025

Giant Magellan Telescope advances to National Science Foundation final design phase

Artist’s concept of a planet-forming disk, like the thirty studied for the ALMA AGE-PRO survey. Gas and dust are seen swirling around a young star.
June 13, 2025

Revealing the lives of planet-forming disks

In this artist's illustration of Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda fills the field of view and begins to distort the Milky Way with tidal pull.
June 11, 2025

In the belly of the beast: Massive clumps reveal star factories from a bygone era of the cosmos

The payload nose cone is pictured against the ocean backdrop at Rocket Lab's launch site in New Zealand
May 20, 2025

NASA selects rocket for U of A-led Aspera mission

Schematic showing the location of the Eos molecular cloud relative to the solar system.
May 7, 2025

A vast molecular cloud, long invisible, is discovered near solar system

Charlotte Pearson inspects the new radiocarbon analysis instrument recently installed at the Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research.
April 11, 2025

Study sheds light on ancient solar activity using radiocarbon locked in tree-rings

The completed spacecraft bus for the NASA Aspera mission, sitting on a table. Large solar panels provide the satellite with power.
April 11, 2025

U of A-led NASA Aspera mission hits spacecraft milestone

Evolutionary stages of a hypothetical planetary system over time
March 18, 2025

Combination of cosmic processes shapes the size and location of sub-Neptunes

Artist's illustration of the SPHEREx wide-field telescope orbiting the Earth in space
March 12, 2025

NASA's SPHEREx mission will use software from the Arizona Cosmology Lab to answer questions about the first moments after the Big Bang

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