Chances are you’ve seen Arizona Stadium before. You might have even watched a football game or two while cheering from the student section. But did you know that underneath the east wing of the ...
Most people would never guess that housed on the east side of Arizona Stadium is the Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory. Funneling into ZonaZoo, students pass by the mirror lab each football Saturday, ...
The Steward Observatory Mirror Lab recently completed polishing a $23 million, 8.4-meter (27.5 feet) diameter mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). It is the first of eight giant mirrors that ...
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Construction is underway on a next-generation optical telescope, up to 200 times more powerful than the best telescopes used today. The Giant Magellan Telescope's seven mirrors ...
The University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory and the Carnegie Observatories of the Carnegie Institution have signed an agreement to produce the first mirror segment for the Giant ...