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Left to right: Michael Lesser, Jianwei Lyu, Tau Herculids meteor shower courtesy of Jianwei Lyu.

Summer News: An Award and an APOD

We recently learned that Dr Mike Lesser, Director of the Imaging Technology Laboratory of Steward Observatory, has won the 2022 Joesph Weber Award of the AAS. Dr Lesser is cited for “innovative and foundational work on methods of thinning, coating, and reading out large-format back-side illuminated CCD detectors. This work has led to significant improvements in performance, and the methods are used by virtually all CCD detectors in astronomical instruments working from optical through X-ray wavelengths.”

You can read more about the award HERE.

While observing at the Steward Bok Telescope on Kitt Peak, postdoc Jianwei Lyu took this composite photo of May 30th's Tau Herculids meteor shower. You can see the photo HERE. Jianwei provides a bit of a backstory: "This is the composite image from 22 single exposures with meteors from 9:00 pm to 11:30 pm (MST time) on May 30. There are 22 meteors in total, and 19 of them shall belong to Tau Herculids. The source of this shower is Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3...

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Young Stars in Dwarf Objects in a Hostile Galaxy Cluster Enviroment

Steward Postdoctoral Research Associate Michael Jones and Associate Professor David Sand have identified five instances of a new type of stellar system. You can see three images HERE and HERE and HERE. They are around a million times less massive than our galaxy, likely...

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