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Check out the great overview by the NY Times of UT Astronomy's work to understand Dark Energy from some of the darkest skies in the US! đ
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Dark Skies and Dark Energy Converge at a West Texas Star Party
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/science/astronomy-hetdex-dark-sky-energy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c1A.aM0c._9EthkACds5J&smid=url-share
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The University of Texas at Austin: Astronomers Thought the Early Universe Was Full of Hydrogen. Now Theyâve Found It.
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Astronomers Thought the Early Universe Was Full of Hydrogen. Now Theyâve Found It. - HETDEX
Astronomers using data from the HobbyâEberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) have discovered tens of thousands of gigantic hydrogen gas halos, called âLyman-alpha nebulae,â surrounding galax...
https://hetdex.org/astronomers-thought-the-early-universe-was-full-of-hydrogen-now-theyve-found-it/
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Congrats to all the winners of the 2026 Visualizing Science Contest, including UT Astronomy grad student Joohyun Lee and Professor Paul Shapiro! See all of the winning images here:
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Visualizing Science Contest Winners for 2026 Span Disciplines
The collegeâs 2026 Visualizing Science competition finalists span a number of disciplines.
https://cns.utexas.edu/news/features/visualizing-science-contest-winners-2026-span-disciplines
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A Night at the Telescope đ
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A Night at the Telescope
The Harlan J. Smith Scholars program takes undergraduate astronomy students out west to observe and capture data on one of the worldâs largest telescopes.
https://news.utexas.edu/2026/03/06/a-night-at-the-telescope/
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Iâm so excited to be joining Astronomy on Tap ATX for their 97th show, along with my friend Ido Mizrahy! A night full of
#astronomy
talks, astronomy news, merch, and more! March 16 - Celis Brewery 7PM
#AoTATX
is FREE and open to all ages!
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UT Astronomer Appointed President of Organization Building Worldâs Most Powerful Telescope
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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI)
5 months ago
Registration is open! AI Boot Camp For Astronomers Presented by the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins and the Texas Advanced Computing Center June 1st-5th 2026 Location: Pickle Research Campus, UT Austin Learn more
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Public voting is now open for our 2026 Visualizing Science contest! See this yearâs entries & vote at
txsci.net/2026VisSciEntries
#SciArt
#ArtinScience
#ScienceArt
#ScientificArt
#ArtandScience
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The explosive death of a star at its earliest, fleeting stage has been revealed by the ESO & a group of astronomers â including UTâs J. Craig Wheeler.
#Spectropolarimetry
#Supernova
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Giant Magellan Telescope: Taft Armandroff and Brian Schmidt Elected to Lead Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors
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Taft Armandroff and Brian Schmidt Elected to Lead Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors
New leadership appointed to guide the next phase of construction as Dr. Walter Massey concludes nearly a decade of service as chair of the GMTO Corporation Board of Directors
https://giantmagellan.org/2025/11/04/taft-armandroff-and-brian-schmidt-elected-to-lead-giant-magellan-telescope-board-of-directors/
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The University of Texas at Austin: Tiny Galaxy, Big Find: Black Hole Discovered in Nearby Segue 1
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Tiny Galaxy, Big Find: Black Hole Discovered in Nearby Segue 1 | McDonald Observatory
Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars â too few to provide the gravity needed to keep itself from scattering into space. Like other dwarf galaxies, ...
https://mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/releases/20251027
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New research from UT astronomers could change how we look at binary star formation.
#BinaryStars
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Born Together: A New Look at Binary Stars
Two Oden faculty, postdoctoral fellow Aleksey Generozov and professor Stella Offner, published a gro...
https://oden.utexas.edu/news-and-events/news/born-together-a-new-look-at-binary-stars/
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We're hiring!
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position in Astronomy | American Astronomical Society
The Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level to begin in August 2026. We welcome applicati...
https://aas.org/jobregister/ad/b5455493
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Welcome back Longhorns! đ¤Wishing you all a great new academic year. đ
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Congrats to Stella Offner on earning a Cottrell Scholar Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery (SEED) Award for 2025!
#CottrellScholars
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10 months ago
Vote to bring our panel âRevolutionizing Astronomy+ AI with Next Generation Big Dataâ to SXSW! Register for a SXSW account & vote by clicking the heart â¤ď¸ - open now til Aug 24!
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PanelPicker | SXSW Conference & Festivals
PanelPickerÂŽ is the official SXSW user-generated session proposal platform. Enter ideas and vote to help shape Conference programming for SXSW and SXSW EDU.
https://participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sxsw26/community-voting-sxsw/page/community-voting/session/1753385661486001PjJE
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University of Texas at Austin: Meet the Universeâs Earliest Confirmed Black Hole: A Monster at the Dawn of Time
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Meet the Universeâs Earliest Confirmed Black Hole: A Monster at the Dawn of Time
AUSTIN, Texas â An international team of astronomers, led by The University of Texas at Austinâs Cosmic Frontier Center, has identified the most distant
https://news.utexas.edu/2025/08/06/meet-the-universes-earliest-confirmed-black-hole-a-monster-at-the-dawn-of-time/
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