The University of Arizona today announced that the first 8.4-meter (27-foot) primary mirror for the world's most powerful telescope, the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), has successfully been ...
The University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory and the Carnegie Observatories of the Carnegie Institution have signed an agreement to produce the first mirror segment for the Giant ...
Go behind the scenes as NOVA visits the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. Equipped with an 8.4-meter mirror and a 3.2-billion-pixel camera—the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy—the Rubin ...
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 ...