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Interior view of the Giant Magellan Telescope at night.

How next-gen telescopes could discover extraterrestrial oxygen

An artist's impression of a planet-forming disk, with its gas and dust illuminated in yellow and orange, swirling around a low-mass star.

James Webb Telescope reveals planet-forming disks can last longer than previously thought

An artist’s impression of the PDS 70 system with protoplanets, each surrounded by dust rings illuminated by starlight.

Sharper image: U of A-built instrument reveals pictures of 'baby planets'

A young girl with long brown hair and a pink mermaid shirt gazes at an interactive screen in a science exhibit. The screen displays a man speaking against a blue molecular-patterned background. The exhibit is illuminated with vibrant purple and blue lighting.

See yourself as a scientist at Flandrau's newest exhibit

An image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1086 obtained by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT)

U of A astronomers capture unprecedented view of supermassive black hole in action

a picture of NGC 300 is a small galaxy located about 6 million light-years from Earth

Large and small galaxies may grow in ways more similar than expected

Sculptor A, one of three newly discovered dwarf galaxies - and unrelated to the well-known Sculptor spiral galaxy - is visible here as a faint accumulation of stars beyond several bright stars in the foreground.

'Ghost towns' of the universe: Ultra-faint, rare dwarf galaxies offer clues to the early cosmos

The galaxy Abell 370 appears twice in this image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope: as a normal galaxy and a drawn-out smear of light due to gravitational lensing.

Beyond the 'Dragon Arc,' a treasure trove of unseen stars

Pluto and Charon

Newly discovered 'kiss and capture' mechanism explains the formation of Pluto and its largest moon

A Mountain at sunset

U of A projects research expenditures surpassed $1B for FY 2024, joining a select group of US research institutions

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