An 11-foot-wide, 1,500-pound glass mirror, made by Corning Inc. and L3Harris Technologies, was recently installed onto the NSF-DEO Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, providing the deepest views of ...

It will take University of Arizona scientists a year to polish each 18-ton mirror. They plan to finish by 2028. By Chuck Squatriglia Published Oct 15, 2019 6:45 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

The first images from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) were published end of January: They show unprecedented details of the sun’s surface and ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — We have an inside look at part of what makes University of Arizona the most active university in space exploration. UA says its space programs launch 560 Million dollars into ...

Aug. 31—CANTON — A massive 11-foot-wide mirror, created in Canton, is installed at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The mirror will help scientists identify potentially harmful asteroids and ...

One upon a time, the largest glass telescope mirror was 100 inches in diameter. Today, scientists are casting a mirror 27 feet in diameter that... Mega Mirror To Power Massive New Telescope GUY RAZ, ...

The University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Lab’s casting of the first mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) “appears to be essentially perfect,” UA Steward Observatory Director Peter ...

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This week, the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory Mirror Lab began to work on the sixth of seven mirror segments of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). The 8.4-meter mirror joins five of the ...

In May 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) encountered a problem. The giant observatory, perched 1 million miles from Earth, has a honeycomb-like configuration of mirror panels to see the ...

A giant red rotating oven spun under the University of Arizona football stadium in the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab on Friday, marking the beginning of the casting process for the fifth mirror of the ...