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Purple-blue starry night sky of the Milky Way
Introducing the 2023 Summer Student Research Prize Winners
'Potentially hazardous' 600-foot asteroid detected near Earth after a year of hiding in plain sight
New algorithm hunting for dangerous asteroids spots its first one during test
Scientists test algorithm that spots potentially hazardous asteroids
Discovery images from the ATLAS survey, with 2022 SF289 visible in the red boxes.
New algorithm ensnares its first ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid
New algorithm ensnares its first ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid
Poetry for the Moon
A nearby supernova could be our chance to hear from aliens
What is out there
Secrets of the stars
Husky Giving Day 2023 was a success!
Faculty/staff honors: Legal education innovation award, stellar astronomical writing and more
Debby Tran, Eric Agol, and Mario Juric speaking to students at the UW Astronomy table at the AAS conference.
A Recap: American Astronomical Society 241st Meeting in Seattle
Video: Lummi Nation School students visit UW to talk to International Space Station astronaut
A color rendition of NGC 6302, the Butterfly Nebula, created from black-and-white exposures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2019 and 2020.
How did the Butterfly Nebula get its wings? It’s complicated
ArtSci Roundup: LIVE from Space, History Lecture Series, Going Public Podcast Launch, and more!
Headshots from Left to right of: Renee Ludlam, Shouleh Nikzad, Linda Shore, Henny J.G.L.M. Lamers, and Emily M. Levesque.
AAS Names Recipients of 2023 Awards & Prizes
How did the Butterfly Nebula get its wings? It’s complicated
Composite HST image of Triangulum galaxy compared to distributions of old and young stars.
Old and new stars paint very different pictures of the Triangulum galaxy
The star Gaia17bpp, circled in red, as shown by the Pan-STARRS1 and DSS missions.
Unusually brightening star captures attention as a stellar oddity
An artistic rending of the star Gaia17bpp being partially eclipsed by the dust cloud surrounding a smaller companion star.
The seven-year photobomb: Distant star’s dimming was likely a ‘dusty’ companion getting in the way, astronomers say
The military is about to launch a constellation
From Artemis to Webb, take a look back - and a look ahead - at the year's top trends in aerospace
JWST images comparing the distribution of hot gas and molecular outflows from the central stars in ehe Southern Ring Nebula
JWST shows how several stars "stirred up" the Southern Ring Nebula
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows how several stars ‘stirred up’ the Southern Ring Nebula
James Davenport (standing), associate director of the DiRAC Institute, meeting with the 2022 DiRAC Summer Research Prize recipients.
Big Data in the Night Sky