Research

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
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Satellite Constellations Are an Existential Threat for Astronomy
November 7, 2022
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Satellite constellations are an existential threat for astronomy
November 6, 2022
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Meteor lights up night sky in Pacific Northwest
October 13, 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
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Some dying stars could have hidden conspirators shaping their afterlife
August 28, 2022
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Biden and NASA unveil James Webb Space Telescope's first image
July 11, 2022
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William Herschel is famous for science ? what about his music?
June 26, 2022
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How 'Big Data' could help SETI scientists focus the search for aliens
June 22, 2022
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Planet Nine: The answer to this cosmic mystery may come sooner than you think
June 16, 2022
discovered asteroid trajectories with Earth in the foreground
Saving Earth from killer asteroids
June 2, 2022
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The first privately funded killer asteroid spotter is here
June 2, 2022
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New tool detects potential impact asteroids with help from the past
May 31, 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
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Superflares may be less harmful to exoplanets than previously thought, study shows
August 11, 2021
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See the first photos from the Hubble telescope after a major computer malfunction
July 29, 2021
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New high-precision measurements of TRAPPIST-1 planets
January 22, 2021