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 ...
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 ...
The University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory Mirror Lab is pre-firing its huge spinning furnace and inspecting tons of glass for casting a first 8.4-meter (27-foot) diameter mirror for the Giant ...