Cheap, of course, is a relative term, and it’s not exactly an assembly line at the University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Lab. Five astronomical mirrors are in some stage of production ...

Under the east wing of the University of Arizona's football stadium ... a cavernous building houses the Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory, the only place in the world that can manufacture ...

The University of Arizona is making significant strides in the field of astronomy with a key milestone in the construction of ...

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 production facility is the University of Arizona's Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab. It is a hidden gem at the university, tucked underneath the east side of Arizona Stadium. Despite being hidden ...

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 ...

which are exclusive to the (University of Arizona) mirror lab.”” The Mirror Lab team has also developed a revolutionary new method to polish the honeycomb mirrors with a deeply curved ...

The University of Arizona is renaming the lab where it makes its giant astronomical mirrors to honor an Arizona businessman whose company supplies some of its components and who recently gave a $ ...

One major goal will be to search out planets that could potentially host life. The University of Arizona Mirror Lab is currently building the seven massive mirrors to help the GMT focus the light ...

University of Arizona Professor Roger Angel led the development ... The glass being prepped now will become the seventh mirror the mirror lab has made for the Giant Magellan Telescope; and the ...