Ever wanted to take a tour of one of the most world renown astronomical mirror laboratories in the world? Now you can. The UA’s Steward Observatory is now conducting tours of the Mirror Lab facility ...
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 ...
This week, the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab began work on the sixth of seven primary mirror segments for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). On March 1st, the lab started ...
The University of Arizona is renaming the lab where it makes its giant astronomical mirrors to honor an Arizona businessman whose company supplies some of its components and who recently gave a $20 ...
The University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory is about to cast a new kind of giant optic for a unique wide-field survey telescope, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. The ...
Staff members at the University of Arizona's Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab recently began making the fifth mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope, a huge telescope under construction in Chile's Atacama ...
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The University of Arizona is building the ability to get a better view of deep space than ever before. A lab like no other, tucked under the football stadium, is the only place ...
The Giant Magellan Telescope, slated to begin science operations in Chile in 2020, will consist of seven 27.6-foot-wide mirrors arranged to form one huge light-collecting surface 80 feet wide. [Read ...
The LSST Corporation has awarded a $2.3 million contract to the University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Lab to purchase the glass and begin engineering work for the 8.4-meter diameter main ...
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 ...
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