05/17/2022 - 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...
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05/16/2022 - 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...
05/04/2022 - 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....
04/27/2022 - 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...
02/17/2022 - 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...
02/04/2022 - 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...
01/13/2022 - Prof. Leslie Looney discusses near Earth asteroids in...
01/10/2022 - Congratulations to Prof. Brian Fields for being on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students in Fall 2021 for ASTR - Stellar Astrophysics...
01/07/2022 - Congratulations to Astronomy major Signe Mason! She was awarded a $1,000...
12/21/2021 - Professor Leslie Looney, among others, warns about the long term concern of killer asteroids and comets....
12/13/2021 - Congratulations to graduate student Alex Gagliano for winning the inaugural Lew Snyder Graduate Student Travel Award. Alex will be attending the conference "Exploring the Transient Universe with the...
11/05/2021 - Sreevani Jarugula is among the ALMA scientists who detected signs of water in the Universe. Read...
10/27/2021 - Visit https://dixongraphics.printavo.com/merch/department-of-astronomy to purchase Astronomy branded apparel.
10/04/2021 - Prof. Charles Gammie will be giving a lecture on Black Holes on October 7, 11:00 am. The Center for Advanced Studies is sponsoring this talk. Click...
09/09/2021 - Astronomy professor Xin Liu has been promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations, Xin!
