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Prof. Emily Levesque receives Sloan Fellowship for outstanding early-career research
Seattle astronomer Woodruff Sullivan searches for life in the stars
Remembering Prof. Erika Böhm-Vitense
Maria Patterson Named in Search for Hidden Figures in STEM Contest
The many worlds of UW astronomer — and astrobiologist — Woody Sullivan
New Funds to Assist Graduate Students Established
Three faculty join the UW Astronomy Department
Suzanne Hawley Named Division Dean for the Natural Sciences at UW
Explaining how it all began
Graduation June 2016
Avoiding “false positives” in the search for living worlds
Prof. Matt McQuinn receives Sloan Fellowship for early-career research
UW astronomers find a rare supernova ‘imposter’ in a nearby galaxy
Professor Emeritus George Wallerstein celebrates 60 years since first observing run
Black Holes in Vanishing Quasars have Eaten their Fill
Earth observations show how nitrogen may be detected on exoplanets, aiding search for life
UW astronomer, students report irregularities in ‘rare, exotic’ binary system
“Upside-down planet” reveals new method for studying binary star systems
‘Dimer molecules’ aid study of exoplanet pressure, hunt for life
UW astronomer Eric Agol’s seven-planet system part of major NASA discovery
Astronomers solve temperature mystery of planetary atmospheres
The Virtual Planetary Laboratory & the Search for Life Beyond the Solar System