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UT Astronomer Appointed President of Organization Building Worldās Most Powerful Telescope
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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI)
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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 yearās entries & vote at
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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 ā including UTās J. Craig Wheeler.
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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
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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 ā too few to provide the gravity needed to keep itself from scattering into space. Like other dwarf galaxies, ...
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New research from UT astronomers could change how we look at binary star formation.
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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...
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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.Ā We welcome applicati...
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Welcome back Longhorns! š¤Wishing you all a great new academic year. š
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Congrats to Stella Offner on earning a Cottrell Scholar Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery (SEED) Award for 2025!
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Vote to bring our panel āRevolutionizing Astronomy+ AI with Next Generation Big Dataā to SXSW! Register for a SXSW account & vote by clicking the heart ā¤ļø - open now til Aug 24!
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PanelPicker | SXSW Conference & Festivals
PanelPickerĀ® is the official SXSW user-generated session proposal platform. Enter ideas and vote to help shape Conference programming for SXSW and SXSW EDU.
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University of Texas at Austin: Meet the Universeās Earliest Confirmed Black Hole: A Monster at the Dawn of Time
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Meet the Universeās Earliest Confirmed Black Hole: A Monster at the Dawn of Time
AUSTIN, Texas ā An international team of astronomers, led by The University of Texas at Austinās Cosmic Frontier Center, has identified the most distant
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