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Graduation 2018 31 undergraduates from our department graduated on Saturday

Winter 2018 Events and Celebrations It’s been an event filled couple of final weeks of winter term at Michigan Astronomy!

The Mystery of the Missing Matter Jiangtao Li and Joel Bregman are among those searching for the missing matter in nearby galaxies.

Dr. Megan Reiter is part of a team that found a jet from a Massive Young Stellar Object (MYSO) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) In fact, this is only the second object of this type that astronomers have confirmed outside of our Milky Way

Fireball Over Michigan If you were outside at 8:30 PM on January 16 in southeastern Michigan, you saw a spectacular celestial event – a fireball streaking across the sky.

Wrong way, hot Jupiter Artist’s concept shows the gaseous exoplanet CoRoT-2b with a westward hotspot in orbit around its host star Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (IPAC)

Astronomy Professors Witness Mesmerizing Eclipse Viewing From Vast Range of Locations, Faculty Relish the Historical Event

University of Michigan Astronomers participate in several successful proposals to use the James Webb Space Telescope for Director’s Discretionary Early Release Science Several members of the Department of Astronomy, including faculty, research staff, and graduate students, contributed to successful programs

In search of the ninth planet A University of Michigan doctoral student has logged two pieces of evidence that may support the existence of a planet that could be part of our solar system, beyond Neptune.

NASA Selects the Arcus X-Ray Mission for Phase A Study This artist's rendering shows the Arcus telescope, a proposed X-ray mission concept that has been selected for a "Phase A" study as part of the $250 million Medium-Class Explorer (MIDEX) program.

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Graduation 2018

The class of 2018 includes 31 students from the Department of Astronomy.

Winter 2018 Events and Celebrations

It’s been an event filled couple of final weeks at Michigan Astronomy!

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