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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

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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

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

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Astronomy Colloquium: The Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS): Dissecting reionization, z~2 galaxies, and dense environments

HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR: nuPRISM

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<b>ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIM</b><br>X-Ray Reverberation Mapping the Inner Accretion Flow Around Supermassive Black Holes

<b>HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR</b><br>Neutrinos in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Cosmology

<b>ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM</b><br>Tracing the Cosmic Shutdown of Star Formation in Massive Galaxies

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<b>ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIM</b><br>Tracing the Cosmic Shutdown of Star Formation in Massive Galaxies

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White House Astronomy Night at the Detroit Observatory

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HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR: T2K

Astronomy Colloquium: Marla Gehla (Yale)

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HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR: The Proton Structure Program at COMPASS

Conversations on Equity and Inclusion: The Imposter Syndrome

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Astronomy Colloquium: Choose Your Own Adventure: Multiplicity of Planets among the Smallest Stars

HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR: High Energy Colliders: Past, Present and Future

Astronomy Distinguished Alumni Colloquium

Astronomy Colloquium: Why the Invisible Reservoir of Gas Around Galaxies Counts in Galaxy Evolution

HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR: Laying the Groundwork for Precision Map of the Higgs Sector: Measurement of the ttbarW and ttbarZ Cross-Sections

Astronomy Colloquium: A Galaxy-Scale Fountain of Cold Molecular Gas Pumped by a Black Hole

HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR: Macro Dark Matter

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Compact Objects In Michigan: 3rd Meeting

Student Astronomical Society Open House

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Orren C. Mohler Prize Lecture

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2015 Distinguished Alumni Lecture "Science & Symphony Films", José Francisco Salgado

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Anne Jaskot Thesis Defense

Ashley King Thesis Defense

Undergraduate Commencement Celebration

Xiao Che Thesis Defense

3rd Annual Astronomy Undergrad Poster Session

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High-Energy-Density Astrophysics in the Laboratory

Ralph Baldwin Prize in Astrophysics and Space Science

Tom Brink Thesis Defense

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Science Café: Black Holes, Gravity, and Cosmic Geometry

Mohler Prize Lecture

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Heber D. Curtis Collegiate Professorship in Astronomy Inaugural Lecture

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Mike Anderson Thesis Defense: "Hot Gaseous Halos Around Galaxies"

Sasha Muratov Thesis Defense: "Cosmological Small-Scale Structure: The Formation of The First Stars, Galaxies, and Globular Clusters"

Nathan Crockett Thesis Defense

Jordan Zastrow Thesis Defense

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2nd Annual Astronomy Undergrad Poster Session

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Sandor Van Wassenhove Thesis Defense

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