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    Astronomy at Illinois

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  • Black Hole
    Illinois astronomers help capture first image of Milky Way's black hole

    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

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  • 100 Years
    100 Gifts for 100 Years
    Help 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.
     

     

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  • NRAO
    Illinois Graduate Student Detects Signs of Water in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

    Sreevani Jarugula is among the ALMA scientists who detected signs of water in the Universe.

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  • Accretion Disk
    Grad student Colin Burke decodes the mysteries of black hole accretion

    Astronomy grad student Colin Burke and Prof. Yue Shen led a new study revealing a relation between the light flickering pattern and the black hole mass in active galactic nuclei, published in the Aug 13 issue of Science. Read more here

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  • Ed Sutton

    Edward Cooper Olson (1930–2020)

    The AAS has released the astronomical obituary of Illinois Emeritus Professor Ed Olson, who passed in 2020.  Ed was an expert on eclipsing and mass-transferring binary stellar systems. Read more here.
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  • ALMA

    ALMA Gets Front-Row Seat to an Ongoing Star-Formation Standoff in the Large Magellanic Cloud

    A team led by Prof. Tony Wong, and including Prof. Leslie Looney, showed that the star formation at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is still driven by gravity even with all the nearby massive stars providing intense feedback. Read about it here.
    Read full story ALMA Gets Front-Row Seat to an Ongoing Star-Formation Standoff in the Large Magellanic Cloud
  • Merging black holes

    Merging Black Holes

    Prof. Xin Liu explains “what would happen if two supermassive black holes merged” in this month’s Astronomy Magazine.
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  • Excellent Teachers Spring 2022
    Congratulations to Prof. Brian Fields, Prof. Telemachos Mouschovias, and grad student Grant Merz for being named to the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students for Spring 2022.  
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  • Applications Now Open for Girls’ Astronomy Summer Camp 2022
    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...
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  • Illinois astronomers help capture first image of Milky Way's black hole
    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....
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  • Alumna Wins Corones Award
    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.
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  • Observable Universe by Pablo Carlos Budassi
    ASTR 100

    Introduction to Astronomy

    Learn the basic concepts of modern astronomy, from the Solar System to the Big Bang.
    Course Description for ASTR 100
  • Cosmic Microwave Background
    ASTR 210

    Introduction to Astrophysics

    Survey of modern astronomy for students with background in physics.
    Course Description for ASTR 210
  • Hubble eXtreme Deep Field
    ASTR 350

    The Big Bang, Black Holes, and the End of the Universe

    Studies the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe, and the scientific tools used to study these issues.
    Course Description for ASTR 350

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