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 ...

After years of polishing to perfection, the mirror slated to form the heart of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, expected to revolutionize our view of the cosmos as a place of constant change, has ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 $20 ...

The LSST Corporation has awarded a $2.3 million contract to the University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Lab to purchase the glass and begin engineering work for the 8.4-meter diameter main ...