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Artist's visualization of an early galaxy surrounded by blue-green gas, with orange streams of metal-enriched gas being expelled into intergalactic space

JWST finds early galaxies were already seeding the universe with heavy elements

Grand Challenges Research Building

U of A ranks No. 1 in the Southwest, top 20 among public US universities for international research collaboration

Two celestial bodies, riddled with craters, are depicted crashing into each other. The impact throws up a ring of fiery, molten rock and sprays debris far out into the surrounding space.

Soft and stretchy or rock solid? New modeling study sheds light on how the Earth got its moon

A cylindrical space telescope against purplish filaments overlaid with a sprinkling of swirling galaxies in the background.

U of A scientists play crucial roles in Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope science, eagerly await Sunday's launch

A metallic spacecraft takes up most of this image. Its body is made of a cylindrical telescope attached to a square base. Inside the telescope is the reflection of an orange star. A line of three solar panels extends from the right side of the spacecraft at a 45-degree angle. On the right side of the background is a large planet streaked with purple, pink, and white. To the left of the planet are two stars.

Pandora mission begins science operations

a gray, cloudy disk seen from the side. From the center, winds of blue-white emerge. Behind is a starry background.

Planet formation is a 'race against time,' according to new U of A research

This telescope image shows asteroid Nysa as three-dimensional, bright body, with an arrow pointing at another object, Nysa's tiny moon, located a small distance away.

Three-lobed asteroid is a world unlike any other

Illustration showing Faraday rotation in the radio afterglow of a gamma-ray burst as polarized radio waves pass through a magnetized cloud of gas.

How stars die: Astronomers detect magnetic fingerprint of a cosmic explosion for the first time

In this illustration, matter swirling around a supermassive black hole glows brightly, while two beams of highly energetic particles are depicted shooting out from the center in both directions perpendicular to the swirling disk of gas and matter.

The two most distant quasars ever observed: U of A astronomers help shatter cosmic record

Several satellites

U of A leads space domain awareness research with $8.6M from Space Force

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