02/21/2019 - Department of Astronomy Professor Charles Gammie has been selected for a prestigious Associate Research Appointment in the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) during the 2019-2020 academic year. 

02/21/2019 - Illinois Profs Looney and Crutcher and grad student Erin Cox were among the science team that released a beautiful image of the dust inferred magnetic field in the Orion nebula using SOFIA HA

02/12/2019 - The Dark Energy Survey recently finished with observations (taken over 6 years and cataloging hundreds of millions of galaxies), and Illinois astronomers (including Profs.

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11/29/2018 - Globular star clusters are favorite targets for amateur sky watchers.

11/16/2018 - Yixian Cao earned her PhD on November 15, 2018. The title of her defense was "Spatially Resolved Study of Molecular Isotopologue 13CO In Nearby Galaxies". Congratulations, Yixian!

10/25/2018 - Graduate student, Daniel George, successfully defended his thesis on Oct. 22, 2018.

10/25/2018 - Prof. Joaquin Vieira's lab is the center of activity for the new camera at the South Pole Telescope. Read more.

09/26/2018 - Join the Astronomy Department at the Observatory on Friday, September 28, 2018 for an evening of conversations about the Universe and viewing the Moon and nearby planets with telescopes.

08/29/2018 - The Astronomy Department invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment.  For complete details Click here

08/29/2018 - Xilu Wang successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Supernovae as gamma ray emitters from the MeV to the TeV."  She is moving on to a N3AS Postdoctoral Fellowship at Notre Dame and Berkeley.  Co

08/29/2018 - We begin the academic year with two faculty members newly promoted.   Joaquin Vieira is now an Associate Professor of Astronomy and of Physics. 

07/05/2018 - Graduate Student Daniel George has won third place in the Association for Computing Machinery Student Research Competition. Congratulations, Daniel!

07/02/2018 - Erin Cox successfully defended her PhD thesis on July 2, 2018. Congratulations, Dr. Cox!

05/16/2018 - Congratulations to the Astronomy Class of 2018! Best wishes on your future endeavors--you make us proud!