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Engineers Install Near Infrared Camera into the Heart of Webb Telescope
NIRCam is provided by the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Please join our director, Buell Jannuzi in congratulating Benjamin Rackham, newly awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Ben’s proposed research, entitled “Strange New Worlds: Exploring the Super-Earth / Hot Neptune Transition through Transmission Spectroscopy”, uses the Magellan and MMT telescopes to study the atmospheric properties of low-mass exoplanets. By pushing the envelope of ground-based transmission spectroscopy, his observations will set the stage for the detailed characterization of the low-mass exoplanets NASA’s TESS satellite will discover in the years ahead.
Buell Jannuzi, Director Steward Observatory
Champions of Change
Benjamin Blonder, co-founder of the UA Sky School, is being honored as a Next Generation of Conservation Leaders Champion of Change.
New view of supernova death throes
A powerful, new three-dimensional model provides fresh insight into the turbulent death throes of supernovas, whose final explosions outshine entire galaxies and populate the universe with elements that make life on Earth possible.
White House Honors Founder of UA's Sky School Project
A passion for science, nature and education led the UA's Benjamin Blonder to create Sky School, a project that has won him recognition as a White House Champion of Change
Is Alien Life Out There? Vatican Observatory Co-Hosts Science Conference in Arizona
Nearly 200 scientists are attending the conference, called "The Search for Life Beyond the Solar System: Exoplanets, Biosignature & Instruments," which runs from March 16 through 21 in Tucson, Ariz. The Vatican Observatory is co-hosting the conference with the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory.
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