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Way up in the sky and sprinkled across the seas, two of the littlest yet most influential things in the world have stubbornly guarded their secrets: aerosols and phytoplankton. Today, NASA launched its Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean…

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A Boeing 747 modified to explore space landed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Tuesday. The aircraft called SOFIA does its space exploration by flying to high altitude, opening a giant door and giving an infrared…

SKA sites in Australia and South Africa at Night. Credit: SKAOConstruction of the world’s biggest radio astronomy facility, the Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO), began on December 4. The observatory is a global project 30 years…

An artists’ impression of SKA-Low antenna arrays.Credit: DISR After 30 years of planning and negotiations, construction begins this week on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world’s largest…

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In 1970, Steve Siok split a $120 tab with two friends to charter a plane from Worcester to Nantucket.The $40 he spent became Siok's ticket to see something great. Or so he thought.In a stroke of bad luck, the plane became stuck in a…

By Mikayla Mace Kelley, University Communications Monday The original Steward Observatory Building was the single white dome pictured here. Since then, Steward Observatory has expanded to include…

Grounded for good But despite its accomplishments, the recently published decadal survey, also called Astro2020, stated that SOFIA’s yearly operating price tag of $86 million USD — on par with the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray…

What to KnowSaturday, Sept. 24, 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.Volunteers will arrive with their own private telescopes for the public to enjoy; you may spy Jupiter, Neptune, and other far-off favoritesFree entry; donations are welcome…