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TIMESTEP Internship Program prepares Astronomy students for high-tech careers through software engineering

TIMESTEP interns

University of Arizona Astrophysicist Chi-kwan Chan Uses AI to Advance Black Hole Simulation Research

12m with students

University of Arizona leads Space Domain awareness research with $8.6M from Space Force

Sure antennae

Aspera Sendoff - Join us for your last opportunity to see the Aspera space telescope before it leaves Arizona for its January 2027 launch

Aspera

Prof of Astronomy Yancy Shirley was accepted into the W.A. Franke Honors College Academy of Scholars

Yancy Shirley

Cosmic blowtorches: How quasars shut down star formation in the early universe

Quasar

Inside CatSat, the U of A student-led satellite mission

Cat Sat Team watching

A Historic Milestone: Department of Astronomy Celebrates Its Largest Graduating Class Ever

Steward Observatory

What shines brighter than a quasar? Two quasars!

Among around 1000 individual quasars, there is on average only one double quasar. At the end of their development, the two spirally approach and merge with each other. They leave an even more massive, single black hole (illustration).

Steward PhD Alum Feature: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has Discovered 11,000 New Asteroids, and It's Barely Even Started!

A model of the inner Solar System showing the asteroids discovered by Rubin in light teal. Known asteroids are dark blue.