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Description: Conducts research into galaxies, cosmology, stars, planets, and the sun. Also involved in astronomy education, and in the development and management of the observatories on Haleakala and Mauna Kea.
Support our goals by joining the Friends of the Institute for Astronomy IfA Astronomers Participate in "A small step toward discovering habitable earths" University of Arizona researchers snapped images of a planet outside our solar system with an Earth-based telescope using essentially the same type of imaging sensor found in digital cameras instead of an infrared detector. Although the technology still has a very long way to go, the accomplishment takes astronomers a small step closer to what will be needed to image earth-like planets around other stars. IfA astronomers provided some near-infrared data taken with the
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