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University of Arizona researchers helping to develop the James Webb Space Telescope. Marcia Rieke and her team at the University of Arizona developed the near infrared camera on the telescope, which will allow the telescope to take images clearer and farther into unexplored galaxies across the universe. (Photo Courtesy NASA/Lockheed Martin.)

Q&A with professor Hainline: Diving deep into JWST’s exploration of space

Trinity Clark
November 9, 2021
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASAs Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo by Joel Kowsky / NASA

I need space: the history of the university’s involvement in NASA missions

Sydney Jones
May 12, 2021
Researchers at the University of Arizona, Feige Wang and Jinyi Yang, have been working on this research for a few years. They explained that the surprising part was not the discovery of this quasar itself, but what they had found from their survey. Photo credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva

The UA discovers most recent quasar to date

Jillian Bartsch
January 24, 2021
Peter Behroozi is an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona and an assistant astronomer at the Steward Observatory. He recently received a grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for $875,000 to study supermassive black holes.

Q&A: Professor and astronomer receives $875,000 to study supermassive black holes

Priya Jandu
October 20, 2019
Dr. Erika Hamden, an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona, was recently named as a 2019 AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador. The platform used to increase visibility of women in STEM careers. Tucson, Az. Monday, Sept. 23, 2019.

Four UA women in STEM selected for inaugural class of AAAS ambassadors

Ana Teresa Espinoza
September 29, 2019
(left to right) Tod Lauer, Feryal Özel and Dimitrios Psaltis all presented at “Bringing Black Holes into Focus with the Event Horizon Telescope on Wednesday, April 17, in the ENR2 Building. The lecture was to explain the methods used to capture the first image of a black hole.

Baffled about the black hole image? UA scientists behind it explain

Quincy Sinek
April 19, 2019
Former UA president Robert Shelton. A physicist by training, Shelton will begin his term as president of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization on February 20, 2017.

Past UA president Shelton chosen to lead Giant Magellan Telescope Organization

January 28, 2017
An overhead view of the mold used to make the seven mirrors in the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab on Monday, July 13 2015, for the Giant Magellan Telescope, expected to be completed in 2025. Robert Shelton, ex-UA president, was recently chosen as the new president of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization.

Featured Science: Mirror lab builds cutting edge telescope parts

Hannah Dahl
January 26, 2017
The remnants of a water fountain on the second floor of the Mines and Metallurgy building on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016.

UA maintains $131 million in deferred maintenance of old buildings

Marissa Heffernan
December 2, 2016
A look at the Steward Observatory on Friday, Aug. 5 at the University of Arizona.

Confluencenter aims to create interdisciplinary partnerships

Marissa Heffernan
November 15, 2016
Evaline Auerbach, historian for the Steward Observatory, speaks at the Steward Observatory public evening lecture series on Monday, Oct. 17.

Steward Observatory celebrates 100 years since its founding gift

Marissa Heffernan
October 18, 2016
A look at the Steward Observatory on Friday, Aug. 5 at the University of Arizona.

Steward Observatory celebrates 100 years of establishment

Bailey Bellavance
August 8, 2016
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