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Tucson astronomy history lives Monday at Steward Observatory
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Monday
Fire danger is high for southeastern Arizona
A red-flag warning is in effect for Southeastern Arizona from noon today until 8 p.m. and again on Saturday afternoon through evening.
CDO grad wins international physics prize
Joe Polchinski, professor at the Kavli Insitute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara, has won one of three Physics Frontiers Prizes from the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation.
Comet Pan-STARRS is getting even tougher to see
Comet Pan-STARRS is staying up later, but it's getting dimmer even as the moon gets brighter, making it a tough catch.
Tucson getting comet crazy
Gates Pass is getting crowded at sunset with crowds of comet watchers, trying to catch a glimpse of Pan-STARRS in the short window of time between the sun setting and the comet dropping beneath the western horizon.
Look west to see Comet Pan-STARRS and a crescent moon again tonight
Comet Pan-STARRS continues to make a brief appearance on the western horizon this week, but is difficult to see with the naked eye.
This comet's a bit faint, but watching for it is good practice
The first comet of the year visible from the Northern Hemisphere sits low on the western horizon for the next few days.
Biosphere 2 couple would like to be the first married couple in space
Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum kept their relationship alive inside Biosphere 2 and now they'd like to test that relationship on a long flight to Mars. The couple spent two years inside Biosphere 2, emerging from the experiment in conta…
David Arnett explores the cosmos with a keyboard
A University of Arizona astrophysicist who made astronomical breakthroughs without ever looking through a telescope lens will deliver a public talk Monday.
Whew! The big meteor missed Tucson
Meteor 2012 DA14 streaked by Earth shortly before 12:30 p.m. Tucson time.
Spiders from Mars
We're not talking about "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars," that 1972 concept album by David Bowie.
Happy holidays from the cosmos
It's that time of year when astronomical outfits release their loveliest, stitched together, false-color images of various parts of the universe.
December 18, 2012 12:55 pm PhotosPhotos
Shooting stars light up downtown; Geminids reward lazy skywatcher
I'm guessing that anyone who got up in the middle of the night to drive out to some dark locale and watch the sky last night was amply rewarded with a good meteor show.
Wednesday is the best time to look for the Geminid meteors from Tucson — probably
Watch the skies tonight for the shooting stars of the Geminid Meteor shower.
The Geminid meteor shower will be spectacular — somewhere else
The annual shooting-star show known as the Geminids coincides this year with a new moon — meaning plenty of dark skies to highlight the streaking meteors.
The new BOSS of Kitt Peak gets a boost
Plans to transform Kitt Peak’s largest telescope into an instrument capable of mapping the universe in an effort to understand dark energy were boosted Tuesday with a $2.1 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Landlocked UA prof is making a big splash in the oceans of the world
The importance goes beyond the ocean’s critical role in balancing the planet’s health, he said.
Get smart, then eat dessert or watch the stars — your pick, Monday
Want to learn about math or astronomy Monday?
Tucson's newest 'genius' doesn't stop to smell the roses, but he'll pause for stars
Tucson’s newest “genius” — University of Arizona astronomer and optical scientist Olivier Guyon — won’t be using his MacArthur Foundation grant of $100,000 a year for five years to buy himself time to think big thoughts.
Pluto, as seen from a mountaintop in Hawaii
You still have to wait until 2015 to see Pluto up-close and personal, but astronomers have produced the best picture ever taken of the distant ice-ball from a telescope on the ground.
Don McCarthy's talk at Steward is Wednesday
Steward Observatory kicks off its public lecture series Wednesday, with a talk by astronomer Don McCarthy on the 50th anniversary of a speech by President John F. Kennedy that described the rationale for planning a human mission to the moon.
Ventana unveils new cancer-testing method
Oro Valley-based Ventana Medical Systems said it is introducing a first-of-its-kind, fully-automated sample staining technique that will allow researchers to examine two key indicators related to cancer in the same section of tumor tissue.
Kids can enter a contest to name the asteroid being explored by UA's OSIRIS REx team
NASA has announced a contest to name the asteroid targeted for exploration in a mission led by the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Lab.
President Kennedy saluted Kitt Peak's solar telescope in 1962
The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope is the image I selected for the "Scientific Bent" blog for some obvious reasons. It reeks of science and it has that marvelous angle.
Phoenix firm focuses on solar technology similar to UA prof's rig
A Phoenix-based company is working on new concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) technology that shares some striking similarities with a system under development in Tucson by University of Arizona astronomy professor Roger Angel.
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