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Featured in a radio segment airing Tuesday March 26th, Dr. Virginie Faramaz teaches an introductory astronomy class at the Tohono O'odham Community College, bringing University of Arizona curriculum to students from Tribal nations across the country

Steward Observatory Professor Teaches Indigenous College Students About the Stars

Steward Observatory Professor Teaches Indigenous College Students About the Stars

Before Dr. Virginie Faramaz arrived at Steward Observatory as an assistant research professor, she had earned her PhD in exoplanetary system dynamics"trying to predict planets from the shape of comet belts"and she had completed two postdocs: one in Chile, and another at the Jet Propulsion Lab." She became faculty at University of Arizona during the pandemic, and she is currently interested in how planetary systems within the habitable zone of stars retrieve organic materials and water from beyond what she calls the "ice line." Her work will help researchers choose exoplanets to observe that are likeliest to harbor life."

But alongside her interest in faraway planets and the hunt for clues of life beyond Earth, Faramaz arrived in Tucson with the hope of teaching. This year, that dream came true: she was invited to lead an online course for the San Carlos Apache College (SCAC) in conjunction with the...

Webb telescope takes its first images of forming planetary systems

A team led by Jarron Leisenring at the UArizona Steward Observatory has obtained the deepest look yet into planetary nurseries.

By taking advantage of the dust-penetrating capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared instruments, designed and built in part by University of Arizona scientists, astronomers have obtained the first direct observations with the new space telescope of gas and dust feeding a nascent planetary system with raw material for planet formation.

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A Steward Postdoc Tells Cosmic Stories for Kids

This fall, Dr. Jaclyn Champagne, our JASPER postdoc researcher at Steward Observatory, wrote a compelling piece for ...

GUSTO balloon mission breaks NASA record 22 miles above Antarctica! 57 days and counting!

GUSTO aims to map out distribution of carbon, oxygen and nitrogen in the young Milky Way and in the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud, which has characteristics comparable to much older galaxies. A comparison of the two galaxies will help the GUSTO team provide the first complete spectroscopic study of all phases of the stellar life cycle, from the development of interstellar gas clouds, to the formation of stellar nurseries, to the birth and evolution of stars.

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