We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2022 Girls’ Astronomy Summer Camp!
This summer camp for high school students will be focused on hands-on astronomy projects. Join this two-day camp to play with real astronomical data and hang with UIUC professors and graduate students!
Camp highlights:
Work on real astronomy...
Astronomy at IllinoisWhy study Astronomy?
Featured StarVEGA (α Lyrae)
Illinois astronomers help capture first image of Milky Way's black holeCongratulations to Prof. Gammie and his team as part of the international collaboration that just released the first image of the accretion disk surrounding the supermassive Black Hole at the center of our Galaxy. It's a great achievement. Read about it here
940 Feet with Professor Leslie LooneyProfessor Leslie Looney recently gave an interview about learning Astronomy.
100 Gifts for 100 YearsHelp celebrate our centennial by reaching for the stars. In celebration of the department’s centennial, we’re asking for your help to replenish the department’s annual fund. Our goal is 100 gifts for 100 years.
Illinois Graduate Student Detects Signs of Water in a Galaxy Far, Far AwaySreevani Jarugula is among the ALMA scientists who detected signs of water in the Universe.
Congratulations to Prof. Gammie and his team as part of the international collaboration that just released the first image of the accretion disk surrounding the supermassive Black Hole at the center of our Galaxy. It's a great achievement. Read about it here.
Congratulations to Dr. Paul Sutter, who was just awarded the 2022 Corones Award. Paul is one of our physics alums (worked with Prof. Ricker) and a great science communicator. Read about it here.
More Department News
- A team of Astronomers including Prof. French have discovered that post-starburst galaxies condense their gas rather than expelling it, begging the question: what’s actually keeping them from forming stars? Read more here: https://...
- Illinois Prof. Looney was part of the team (led by alum John Tobin) that probed the youngest protostars in Orion at the highest resolution to date. They found that roughly 30% of all systems surveyed contained multiple stars, which shows that binary formation occurs hand in hand with the earliest...
- New affiliate Astronomy faculty Prof. Eggl and Astronomy Research Prof. Gruendl were invited to join the new International Astronomical Union Centre for the Protection of the Dark Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference. Read more here
- Prof. Leslie Looney discusses near Earth asteroids in Newsweek
Calendar
Astronomy Picture of the Day
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.
