01/14/2020 - T The Department of Astronomy and the Center for Astrophysical Surveys announces the "Supernovae across LSST" workshop to be held April 27-29, 2020 at the Illini

09/05/2019 - The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has won the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for creating the first image of a supermassive black hole, taken by mea

08/26/2019 - Professor Yue Shen has been promoted to Associate Professor of Astronomy. Congratulations, Yue!

07/31/2019 - We are happy to welcome our new Assistant Professor Gautham Narayan to the Department. Professor Narayan’s research is at the intersection of cosmology, astrophysics, and data science.

07/31/2019 - Congratulations to astronomy graduate student Jennifer Li on being selected to receive a 2019-20 NASA/Illinois Space Grant Consortium Fellowship!

07/25/2019 - Taylor Tobin earned her PhD on July 15, 2019.

07/16/2019 - Fifty years ago this month, human beings first walked on another world.  Join Illinois Astronomers to celebrate this achievement.

05/17/2019 - Congratulations to the Astronomy Class of 2019! Best wishes on your future endeavors--you make us proud!

05/01/2019 - Congratulations to Prof. Xin Liu for being awarded the prestigious Arnold O.

04/25/2019 - The 2019 Astronomy Awards have been announced:  

04/10/2019 - The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of a black hole.

04/10/2019 - The Event Horizon Telescope Project announced that it has captured the first image of a black hole.

03/26/2019 - Prof. Tony Wong spent some time recently at the Next Generation School teaching the STEAM students about telescopes.

03/21/2019 - Four professors, one instructor, and one TA are on the Fall 2018 Excellent Teacher list. Professors Bryan Dunne and Brian Fields were listed as Outstanding.

03/07/2019 - Illinois Prof Looney was among the science team that released a beautiful image of the dust inferred magnetic field in two galaxies.