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Welcoming our New Department Chair, Dr. Werk
April 1, 2024
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Five UW faculty members elected as AGU Fellows, plus more honors
September 18, 2023
What is out there
Secrets of the stars
May 29, 2023
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
March 15, 2023
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
February 14, 2023
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
February 2, 2023
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
January 10, 2023
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
January 9, 2023
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
December 8, 2022
James Davenport (standing), associate director of the DiRAC Institute, meeting with the 2022 DiRAC Summer Research Prize recipients.
Big Data in the Night Sky
December 1, 2022
near earth orbit satellites in DECam field of view
Lots of junk is floating in outer space. How can we clean it up?
September 21, 2022
Webb's First Deep Field
UW astronomer: NASA's new telescope shows clearest images of other galaxies to date
July 17, 2022
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Planet Nine: The answer to this cosmic mystery may come sooner than you think
June 16, 2022
Overhead view of trajectories of solar system asteroids discovered by B612 institute
UW-developed, cloud-based astrodynamics platform to discover and track asteroids
May 30, 2022
Emily Levesque
Prof. Emily Levesque receives Guggenheim Fellowship
April 14, 2022
AAS fellows pin
Professor Vikki Meadows Named AAS Fellow
January 25, 2022
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Professor Željko Ivezić to Lead Rubin Observatory Project
January 25, 2022
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New high-precision measurements of TRAPPIST-1 planets
January 22, 2021

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