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Solar Eclipse 2017 On August 21, 2017, the shadow of the Moon will cross the United States.

UM astronomers spot the formation of new stars in a galaxy far, far away Michigan graduate student Traci Johnson pushes the Hubble Space Telescope beyond its limits, to find the building blocks of star formation in a distant galaxy.

UM-Astronomer part of Jupiter-like planet discovery Prof. Michael Meyer is part of An international team of astronomers that discovered a planetary mass companion orbiting a nearby star.

Peering into the heart of planet formation Research presented in a paper by Professor Ted Bergin and Postdoctoral Fellow Ke Zhang appear in Nature Astronomy

Undergraduate Poster Session 2017 Undergraduates present their research Friday, April 14th at the Michigan League

Proud sponsor of the National Society of Black Physicists Fall Conference 2016 The Department of Astronomy was a proud sponsor of the National Society of Black Physicists Fall Conference 2016, “The Value of the Minority Physics Student: A Talent Source for America’s Technical Future”, held on October 27-30, 2016, at Fermilab, in Batavia, IL. Graduate students Traci Johnson and Tom Rice, as well as faculty members Keren Sharon, Emily Rauscher and Michael Meyer met with students and colleagues from a number of institutions and participated in the meeting program.

Full Spectrum Observing with NOEMA Through a partnership with the Institute for Radio Astronomy in the Millimeter Range (IRAM), U-M now has access to the Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA), an interferometer on the Plateau de Bure in the French Alps. NOEMA is one of the largest observatories in Europe and is considered the most powerful millimeter radio-telescope of the Northern Hemisphere.

Peering into the heart of planet formation Research presented in a paper by Professor Ted Bergin and Postdoctoral Fellow Ke Zhang appear in Nature Astronomy

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Dept. of Astronomy 2017/2018 Astronomy Colloquium Series

Dr. Raja Guha Thakurta, Professor/Astronomer, UCO/Lick Observatory, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California Santa Cruz

3:40 PM
411 West Hall

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Dept. of Astronomy - The Origins of Volatiles in Habitable Planets: The Solar System and Beyond Workshop

8:30 AM
Kuenzel Room Michigan Union

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