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Ever wanted to take a tour of one of the most world renown astronomical mirror laboratories in the world? Now you can. The UA’s Steward Observatory is now conducting tours of the Mirror Lab facility ...

Should you find yourself in a reflective mood, consider taking a tour of the University of Arizona Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory. That’s where a team of scientists and engineers make enormous, ...

Staff members at the University of Arizona's Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab recently began making the fifth mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope, a huge telescope under construction in Chile's Atacama ...

TUCSON, AZ — We have an inside look at part of what makes the University of Arizona the most active university in space exploration. UA officials say the space programs launch $560 million into ...

The University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory is about to cast a new kind of giant optic for a unique wide-field survey telescope, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. The ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope, slated to begin science operations in Chile in 2020, will consist of seven 27.6-foot-wide mirrors arranged to form one huge light-collecting surface 80 feet wide. [Read ...

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 ...

That first mirror has been polished to more than 99 percent of perfection, according to three tests devised by the Mirror Lab and its partners in the UA College of Optical Sciences. On Saturday, its ...

Most people would never guess that housed on the east side of Arizona Stadium is the Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory. Funneling into ZonaZoo, students pass by the mirror lab each football Saturday, ...