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The Department of Astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Joined February 2014
Welcome back Longhorns! 🤘Wishing you all a great new academic year. 🎓
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Congratulations to #Cottrell SEED Award winner Stella Offner @UTAustin @McDonaldObs @UTAstronomy @CosmicAI_Inst for “Predicting Star Formation: Past and Future.”
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Congrats to Stella Offner on earning a Cottrell Scholar Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery (SEED) Award for 2025! #CottrellScholars #TexasScience #UTAustin @UTAstronomy @mcdonaldobs @CosmicAI_Inst
10 #CottrellScholars have won 2025 Cottrell SEED Awards from RCSA to advance high-impact research activities. https://t.co/h50mWGLHaW
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Texas Research Impact: @TexasScience researchers are pushing the boundaries of astronomy. Using @ESA_Webb data, they’ve confirmed the earliest known black hole — offering new insight into how galaxies formed in the early universe. 🔗 https://t.co/4PYmwj9SBy
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Distant Little Red Dot Hosts a Huge (and Growing) Black Hole The “little red dot” CAPERS-LRD-z9 is the most distant object to show the characteristic broad emission lines of fast-moving gas around a black hole. https://t.co/MuvlgUSIvR
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CAPERS-LRD-z9 is the most distant object to show the broad emission lines of fast-moving gas around a black hole.
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This just in: We received confirmation that the Giant Magellan Telescope is advancing into the @NSF Major Facilities Final Design Phase, a milestone that positions the United States to lead the next era of discovery. Read how this decision impacts astronomy:
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Congrats to all four, but a special shout out to @UTAstronomy alumna Sarafina Nance! 🤘@StarStrickenSF
Congrats to our 2025 Outstanding Young Texas Exes! This award recognizes alumni under 40 for their significant achievements in their careers and service to @UTAustin. They are proud Longhorns who inspire and strive for greatness. Meet this year's class: https://t.co/26WW6DGSUJ🤘
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Shardha Jogee, Professor in Astronomy and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the @UTAustin College of Natural Sciences, shares why funding the Giant Magellan Telescope must be a top priority for maintaining US leadership in science. https://t.co/uC3PaZrAHZ
#giantdiscoveries
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🎉 The Cosmic Frontier Center, in @UTAustin's @UTAstronomy dept., has announced its second class of postdoctoral fellows!! More about the Cosmic Frontier Center, and its new Frontier Fellows, can be found here: https://t.co/vApQbYcqXR
#WhatStartsHere
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Congratulations to 2025 #RCSAFellow Jenna Samuel, Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin! @astro_jenna @UTAstronomy
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The @NASAWebb Space Telescope is the most powerful currently available to astronomers - Observation time is very competitive. 🎉 We're thrilled to announce #Webb is awarding astronomers from @UTAustin 10% of its coveted observing time!! https://t.co/7cuAwISIIh
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Why were there so many galaxies and stars in the early universe? @UTAustin astronomer Mike Boylan-Kolchin proposes a novel answer: dark matter was dense enough then to overcome feedback that normally slows star formation. https://t.co/fvWL1D3Mdh
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So exciting! 🤩 @NorthwesternU has joined @giantmagellan Telescope’s international consortium - Expanding it to 15 research institutions worldwide!! 🎉
We are pleased to welcome @NorthwesternU as the 9th American institution to invest in the Giant Magellan Telescope. With institutions from the US, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Israel, South Korea, and Taiwan, they join one of the largest public-private partnerships in science
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🤩 Largest telescope mount built in the USA!!
The Giant Magellan Telescope and Rockford, Ill.-based Ingersoll Machine Tools Inc., part of the Italian Camozzi Group, announced the start of manufacturing and assembly of the largest telescope mount built in the United States. Read more: https://t.co/zcWJiz21mA
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We're thrilled to help welcome the first class of postdoctoral fellows in @UTAstronomy's Cosmic Frontier Center! Learn about the center & the work these researchers are doing, tackling key questions of the Universe! https://t.co/grWW8ZfDaa
#WhatStartsHere
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.@UTAstronomy graduate fellow Kyle Franson and @JohnHopkins graduate student William Balmer co-led a project that captured an image of an exoplanet. Despite the project's obstacles of time and visibility, it will help provide information about a planet's atmospheric composition,
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Now that one of the Giant Magellan’s 16-metric ton mirrors has been successfully integrated with a support system prototype, it will undergo performance and precision control testing at the @uarizona Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab. https://t.co/Z83IDUQqjj
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⭐ WEDNESDAY! ⭐ Join @mcdonaldobs, and hosts Dr. Julián Muñoz & Saul Rivera, to learn about dark matter & dark energy, in a special Spanish-language Livestream: Viajando en Vivo por el Cielo Nocturno: Materia Oscura y Energía Oscura See you there! https://t.co/WY9bweFjJy
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😍 Welcome back, IGRINS! 👏
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Lots of folks stayed up late last night and caught an incredible show - the aurora was back! This video was shot from 8:30pm-10:30pm last night at @mcdonaldobs by Stephen Hummel, used with permission. Did you see the aurora? Show us your pics in the comments!
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