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Recipient of the 2024 Marc Aaronson Prize Offers Public Lecture on the Most Powerful Explosions Since the Big Bang

Wen-fai Fong

Giant Magellan Telescope is an engineering marvel

Giant Magellan Telescope

Tune into a deep-dive radio segment on the Sky School, featuring Rob McGehee!

Rob McGehee

CatSat has captured and transmitted its first pictures of the Earth!

An image of Earth, transmitted from the student-led CatSat mission.

Watch: University of Arizona's Sky School featured on Arizona Illustrated

Student peers through telescope on Mt. Lemmon

Student-Led CatSat Mission Transmits its First Signals!

Hello World CatSat

Reflecting hope: Concentrating solar power can feed the grid and perhaps even remove carbon from Earth's atmosphere

Heliostat

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