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Faculty and Staff
Welcoming our New Department Chair, Dr. Werk
April 1, 2024
Five UW faculty members elected as AGU Fellows, plus more honors
September 18, 2023
Secrets of the stars
May 29, 2023
A Recap: American Astronomical Society 241st Meeting in Seattle
March 15, 2023
How did the Butterfly Nebula get its wings? It’s complicated
February 14, 2023
AAS Names Recipients of 2023 Awards & Prizes
February 2, 2023
Old and new stars paint very different pictures of the Triangulum galaxy
January 10, 2023
The seven-year photobomb: Distant star’s dimming was likely a ‘dusty’ companion getting in the way, astronomers say
January 9, 2023
JWST shows how several stars "stirred up" the Southern Ring Nebula
December 8, 2022
Big Data in the Night Sky
December 1, 2022
Lots of junk is floating in outer space. How can we clean it up?
September 21, 2022
UW astronomer: NASA's new telescope shows clearest images of other galaxies to date
July 17, 2022
Planet Nine: The answer to this cosmic mystery may come sooner than you think
June 16, 2022
UW-developed, cloud-based astrodynamics platform to discover and track asteroids
May 30, 2022
Prof. Emily Levesque receives Guggenheim Fellowship
April 14, 2022
Professor Vikki Meadows Named AAS Fellow
January 25, 2022
Professor Željko Ivezić to Lead Rubin Observatory Project
January 25, 2022
New high-precision measurements of TRAPPIST-1 planets
January 22, 2021
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