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How to Find the Rarest of the Rare in Southern Skies
University of Arizona computer scientists are teaming up with astronomers at the National Optical Astronomical Observatory to develop a computer program that will sort through the millions of objects detected by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
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20 Tons of Glass, Fresh from the Oven
The Giant Magellan Telescope’s third primary mirror was unveiled at the University of Arizona, Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab on Friday...
Video: Mirror Lab Unveils Third GMT Mirror
... After spending three months rotating in a custom-built furnace, the mirror is ready for polishing.
Traveling through space with a giant telescope
When completed in 2022, those seven mirrors, each measuring 27 feet across, will give astronomers 10 times the power of the Hubble telescope...
UA Astronomers Discover Planet That Shouldn't Be There
An international team of astronomers, led by a University of Arizona graduate student, has discovered the most distantly orbiting planet found to date around a single, sun-like star. It is the first exoplanet – a planet outside of our solar system – discovered at the UA.
'Arizona Illustrated' presents: UA Science: Sky School
The UA Science Sky School is an outdoor education program run by the university's graduate students.
Astrophotographer Captures Images of Now Extinct Comet
The Comet ISON is with us no more.
The 4.5 billion-year-old comet fell apart Thanksgiving Day as it traveled around the sun.
A School in the Sky: UA Science and Tucson Students
Seven-thousand feet above Tucson, and surrounded by the horizons, K-12 students are learning about the natural world and the night sky at the University of Arizona's UAScience Sky School at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter.
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