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Northwestern Professor Wen-fai Fong Honored with Steward Observatory’s 2024 Marc Aaronson Prize

Wen-fai Fong

UArizona's first satellite built by students is ready for launch

Artist's rendering of CatSat in Earth orbit, with its inflatable, beachball-like antenna deployed.

Space sciences, water resources, geosciences excel in latest US News global ranking

Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab

Steward Observatory graduate student and team discover most distant supernovas ever found

A team of astronomers studying JADES data identified about 80 objects (circled in green) that changed in brightness over time.

Native American representatives and UA leaders visit Steward Observatory’s Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter for Tribal Leaders Summit

Tribal leaders gather at Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter

Giant Magellan Telescope Enclosure Ready for Construction

GMT rendering

Glimpses of a volcanic world: New LBT images of Jupiter's moon Io rival those from spacecraft

LBT

James Webb Space Telescope spots the two most distant galaxies ever seen at cosmic dawn

An infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was taken by the onboard Near-Infrared Camera for the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES, program

'Mind-boggling' quasars and atmospheres of vaporized rock: UArizona astronomers explore cosmos with Webb Telescope

Artist’s impression of a high-redshift quasar as it would have appeared a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. P

The Large Binocular Telescope Commemorates 20 Years of Space Science

LBT Anniversary Event attendees