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Turbocharging SPHEREx: How U of A Cosmologists Are Using AI to Unlock the Universe's Largest Galaxy Survey

SPHEREx

University of Arizona Astrophysicist Erika Hamden Named 2026 Guggenheim Fellow

Hamden recognized among 223 fellows worldwide for groundbreaking detector development and leadership in UV space telescope missions

Final Four, Final Frontier: Erika Hamden uses national stage to link U of A's athletics and space sciences

Erika Hamden, associate professor of astrophysics in the Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory and director of the Space Institute, speaks with reporters at the Bear Down Bash in downtown Indianapolis.

Mysterious red dot first spotted by U of A astronomers reveals itself as a baby planet orbiting a young star

An artist's illustration of the WISPIT 2 system. WISPIT 2c is closest to the star in the back; WISPIT 2b is in the foreground. Both are now confirmed to be young, growing protoplanets.

AAS Announces 2026 Shapley Lecturers - Including Steward Observatory Astronomer Chris Impey

Shapley lecturers

Newly discovered star opens 'laboratory' for solving cosmic dust mystery

Art by Thordis Maaske

2026 Rieke Prize Awarded to Dr. Dennis Zaritsky

Dennis Zaritsky

A galaxy next door is transforming, and astronomers can see it happening

Small Magellanic Cloud Imaged by Herschel mission, Planck observatory, Infrared Astronomical Satellite, and Cosmic Background Explorer.

AstroNuc 2026: Prize Fellow Aldana Grichener organizes a packed astrophysics workshop

Aldana Grichener, Prize Fellow in Theoretical & Computational Astrophysics, organizes a growing nuclear astrophysics workshop that brings together theorists, observers, and experimentalists to tackle some of the Universe's most fundamental questions.

U of A to build instruments for new space telescope

Postdoctoral researcher Hyukmo Kang (left) and Optical Sciences graduate student Solvay Blomquist align space telescope optics in the U of A's Applied Research building.