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Distant Double Quasars Spotted by HubbleProfessor Yue Shen and his team used the Hubble Telescope to find double quasars. Read about it here
Prof. Charles Gammie and Students Release Image of Magnetic FieldProf. Charles Gammie and Physics graduate students George Wong and Ben Prather are part of the team that just released the first image of the magnetic field at the edge of the accreting disk that surrounds it.
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Congratulations to the 2021 Astronomy graduates: Alexander Basler, Kunal Bhatia, Kelley Chau, Kaiyuan Dou, Jorge Espinoza, Justin Gaetz, Alex Garcia, Kameron Gausling, Archit Gupta, Jake Hawkins, Matthew Hoyle, Zhenghai Liu, Bashitha Mandava, Daniel Milgram, Daniel Montoya, Peyton Pielet, Sahaj Putcha, Japneet Singh, Yuchen Wang, and Zhengyuan Yu!
Grad student alumna, Miguel Holgado, and his Illinois colleagues recently published their findings about neutron stars. Read more about it here
More Department News
- Prof. Stu Shapiro has co-authored a new book in relativity. Entitled "Numerical Relativity: Starting From Scratch" (Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge) 2021, it is designed for students and researchers without backgrounds in general relativity who want to understand and use the tools of numerical...
- The Astronomy Department is proud to host the Illinois Astrofest on April 2021. It is open to everyone in the campus community, but registration is required. More information is found here.
- Emeritus Astronomy Professor Laird Thompson has a newly published book. The book reflects on cosmic voids and the journey to have his findings accepted....
- The Department of Astronomy is sad to announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Lew Snyder. He was a big influence on the Department for 30 years, serving as the Director of the Laboratory for Astronomical Imaging for many years and as the Chair of the Department in 2002- 2005. The family has...
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ASTR 100Learn the basic concepts of modern astronomy, from the Solar System to the Big Bang.
ASTR 210Survey of modern astronomy for students with background in physics.
ASTR 350Studies the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe, and the scientific tools used to study these issues.
