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10/09/2020 - Alum Dr. Dom Segura-Cox led a team that included Prof.

10/07/2020 - Congratulations to Di Wen who successfully defended his thesis on Wednesday, October 7, 2020.

10/01/2020 - A team led by Illinois astronomers Qian Yang (postdoctoral researcher), Prof. Yue Shen and Prof. Xin Liu discover the longest echos from the heart of faraway galaxies.

09/29/2020 - Congratulations to Professor Brian Fields for being selected as a 2020 American Physical Society Fellow!

09/10/2020 - The Fall 2020 Astronomy Newsletter has been published. Click here for details

08/26/2020 - We are proud to announce that the James B. Kaler classroom is ready for learning.

08/24/2020 - Congratulations to Ko-Yun (Monica) Huang who successfully defended her thesis on Friday, August 21, 2020.

08/19/2020 - Professor Brian Fields and graduate students Ada Ertel and Jesse Miller have published a paper linking a supernova to a mass extinction millions of years ago.

08/19/2020 - Congratulations to Wei-Ting Liao, who successfully defended her thesis on August 18, 2020. The title of her paper is "The evolution of the first stellar systems".

08/14/2020 - As we begin to transition into Fall 2020, we have new Astronomy Office Guidelines.

08/07/2020 - Prof. Charles Gammie answers questions on the formation of the Moon and imaging the first black hole in LAS Experts.

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