Faculty and Staff

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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)
Vera C Rubin Observatory logo
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)