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In search of the ninth planet: UPDATE

Relics of the Milky Way's First Generation of Stars

Astronomers Discover Dizzying Spin of the Milky Way Galaxy’s “Halo”

University of Michigan and IRAM agree to collaborate on NOEMA

Exciting Fellowship news

Monica Valluri honored for scholarship, service

Dr. Megan Reiter's work featured in Physics Today

Proud Sponsor of the National Society of Black Physicists Fall Conference 2016

Prof. Jon Miller receives AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division Mid-Career Award

Incoming PhD class

Undergraduate Poster Session 2017

ASTRO 461: Ground-Based Observatories

Peering into the heart of planet formation

UM-Astronomer part of Jupiter-like planet discovery

UM astronomers spot the formation of new stars in a galaxy far, far away

Solar Eclipse 2017

Abdu Zoghbi awarded a 2017 Rackham Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Award

NASA Selects the Arcus X-Ray Mission for Phase A Study

Astronomy Professors Witness Mesmerizing Eclipse Viewing

University of Michigan Astronomers participate in several successful proposals to use the James Webb Space Telescope for Director’s Discretionary Early Release Science

Wrong way, hot Jupiter

Graduate Students win top fellowships to pursue research

Fireball Over Michigan

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)

The Mystery of the Missing Matter

Winter 2018 Events and Celebrations

Graduation 2018

Astronomy Artist

Trio of Infant Planets Discovered around Newborn Star

VLT/SPHERE confirmation image of a newborn exoplanet

The Milky Way’s long-lost sibling finally found

Spectacular Image of Abell 370 Galaxy Cluster Captured by BUFFALO Survey

U-M astronomers use NuSTAR at >8keV to study the cosmic rays of supernova remnant SN1006

U-M astronomers to use NASA’s Webb Telescope to weigh a black hole

U-M astronomers confirm collision between two Milky Way satellite galaxies

A recap of Fall Preview Weekend 2018

Giving Blueday 2018

Jon Miller appointed as a co-chair for NASA's Athena Study Team

Congratulations to John Monnier for the 2019 AAS Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation

Edwin A. Bergin Wins the 2019 Heineman Prize for Astrophysics

The lonely giant: Milky Way-sized galaxy lacking galactic neighbors

MIRC-X gives sharpest-ever view of stars and planet-forming discs

Do you like Earth’s solid surface and life-inclined climate? Thank your lucky (massive) star

Congratulations to Emily Rauscher for being selected as a 2019 Cottrell Scholar

Planet Nine: U-M astronomers optimistic about its existence, hope to see more evidence soon

How galactic bubbles produce energetic particles

U-M researchers confirm massive hyper-runaway star ejected from the Milky Way Disk

Dr. Traci Johnson awarded Rackham Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award and Insight Data Science Fellowship

Astronomers determine mass of small black hole at center of nearby galaxy

Farewell to our outgoing Ph.D. students

Jenny Calahan and Benjamin Setterholm Awarded NASA FINESST Grants

U-M Astronomy pleased to host 51 Peg b Fellows

A Reflection on Astro 461

Astronomers use giant galaxy cluster to magnify X-ray emissions of an early-forming galaxy

Don’t go chasing (gas) waterfalls—unless you’re an astronomer studying planet formation

Giving Blueday 2019

Giant Magnetic Ropes in a Galaxy's Halo

The unpredicted black hole

U-M NextProf Science 2020 Opportunity through the Department of Astronomy

U-M Astronomy faculty honored at AAS

U-M Astronomy faculty announced as AAS Fellows

Understanding black hole ejections

Juliette Becker awarded ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

Francisco Holguin awarded NASA FINESST Grant

METIS passes preliminary design review for the European Southern Observatory Extremely Large Telescope

Monster Black Hole Found in the Early Universe

U-M Astronomy pleased to host 51 Peg b Fellows

The Best Comet in a Decade is now Visible

IMAGE RELEASE: Magnetic Field of a Spiral Galaxy

Scientists discover warped disk ‘torn apart by stars’

Introducing the Everything Astronomy Student Podcast

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Critical For GPS, Seen In Distant Stars

Most isolated massive stars are kicked out of their clusters

ESO ELT Instrumentation Program Participation

On the Hunt for a Missing Giant Black Hole

Astronomers discover most distant quasar

Renee Ludlam awarded the AAS 2021 HEAD Dissertation Prize

Nuria Calvet recognized as a role model in astronomy and engineering

Astronomy majors win Chambliss Student Poster Awards for AAS 237

#GivingBlueday 2021

Astronomy students receive prestigious Rackham fellowships

Dr. Adi Foord selected as recipient of the 2020 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

From stardust to pale blue dot: Carbon’s interstellar journey to Earth

Congratulations 2021 Graduates!

2021 Astronomy Undergraduate Poster Session

Emily Rauscher awarded 2022 Simons Foundation Fellowship in Theoretical Physics

Massive bubbles at center of Milky Way caused by supermassive black hole

Adam Smercina awarded Ralph B. Baldwin Prize in Astronomy

Zhijie Qu selected as recipient of the 2021 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

Ryan MacDonald to join U-M's Department of Astronomy as a Sagan Fellow in fall 2022

Colossal black holes locked in dance at heart of galaxy

U-M astronomers anticipate launch of James Webb Space Telescope

International team, including U-M astronomer, observes planet orbiting b Centauri

U-M astronomers suggest radiation, not supernovae, drives superwinds in some galaxies

ALMA study reveals the many molecular faces of protoplanetary disks

Astronomy and Physics double major awarded prestigious 2022 Goldwater Scholarship

2022 Astronomy Undergraduate Research Symposium

Black holes raze thousands of stars to fuel growth

Astronomy Graduation Program & Celebration

U-M scientist part of group to reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy

Astronomers find ‘gold standard’ star in Milky Way

Prof. Chris Miller selected as recipient of LSA's 2022 John Dewey Award

Department Chief Administrator, Bebe Zuniga-Valentino, recipient of Robin Sarris Outstanding Supervisor Award

A fond farewell to retiring Professor Lee W. Hartmann

Department research on nearby galaxies showcased at AAS and described in Sky and Telescope

NASA releases first images from Webb telescope: U-M experts available

Michael Meyer to join Astronomy Department

Astronomers Catch Black Hole Shredding Star

Hazel "Doc" Losh, First Female Faculty Member in Astronomy, Featured on U-M Heritage Site

Dark energy probe involving U-M reaches critical milestone

Researchers in the Department of Astronomy Find Universe's Smallest Supermassive Black Hole

Cool Gas and Active Galaxies

Katherine Freese developed a revolutionary theory about a new kind of star

Professor Eric Bell receives John Dewey Award

NextProf Science Seeks to Diversify Academia

Congratulations class of 2015

2015 Undergraduate Research Poster Session

Pictures from the 2015 Mohler Prize lecture

U-M Scientists Help Build Next-Generation Dark Energy Probe

Michigan Astronomy hosts laboratory workshop

2015 Distinguished Alumni Lecture Photos

Sharing Her Love of the Sky

John Monnier: Still Pushing the Limits of Interferometry

2014 Holiday Party pictures

Research by LSA Astronomers Helps Prove Earth's Water Didn't Come from Melted Comets

Making Alien Worlds Her Home

Pictures From the Oct. Eclipse Viewing

Michigan Instrument Provides Sharpest View Yet of Stellar Explosion

Prof. Jon M. Miller Receives Faculty Recognition Award

Fall 2014 Welcome pictures

Work featured in Nature Research Highlights

John Monnier Recieves Award for Astronomical Interferometry

We’re Moving!

Prof. Sharon’s work featured

Congratulations to the Class of 2014

2014 Undergraduate Poster Fair

LSA Astronomer David Nidever Says New Stars Have Been Found In The Milky Way

Two articles in the spring NOAO newsletter

Pictures from the 2014 Mohler Prize - Prof. Martha Haynes

Former U-M Observatory Becomes First Digital Planetarium in sub-Saharan Africa

A Feast for the Eyes

Seeing the Unseeable: Black Holes and Revelation by Dr. Reis on YouTube

The Galaxy Collision Next Door

Rudi Linder Discusses UFOs on Michigan Radio

Department updates, September 2013

Students Use Arizona Observatory for New Course

A snow line in an infant solar system: Astronomers take first images

Congratulations to the Class of 2013

Green Pea Galaxies

Young supernova remains found by U-M astronomer

Congratulations to Michigan Astronomy graduates!

An Over-Massive Black Hole in the Compact Lenticular Galaxy NGC1277

"Gravitational Lensing -- Nature's Largest Telescopes" by Keren Sharon

Distinguished Alumni visit for a talk

Dying Star Provides New Opportunities For Testing Relativity

Professor Calvet receives Collegiate Professorship

Angell Hall Featured in LSA Video

Fall 2018 Newsletter

Fall 2019 Newsletter

Fall 2020 Newsletter

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