Chris Impey

University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona

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Night skies are getting brighter and stars are being erased – here's what can be done

For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the Industrial Revolution, as artificial light increasingly lit cities and towns at night, ...

28 feb 2023

"What are 'Super-Earths' and could they be more habitable than Earth?"

Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey ...

23 sep 2022

Scientists will soon be able to see how the universe began, thanks to this new telescope

Some have called NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope the “telescope that ate astronomy.” It is the most powerful space telescope ever built and a complex piece of mechanical origami that ha...

15 oct 2021