News: Astronomy

The galaxy contains far more star-forming clumps than current theoretical models can explain.

Lauren Biddle, a UT postdoc, finds about one-third of young Sun-like stars are born with misaligned protoplanetary disks.

A team of astronomers from UT’s Cosmic Frontier Center have identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed.

A Big Freetail bat nicknamed Hubble apparently hitched a ride from McDonald Observatory to Austin in astronomy gear.

UT Austin is on track for huge leaps forward in astronomy research capabilities as GMT progresses.

Over 250 hours of observations from the world’s most powerful telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, are freely available to the public.

Their work will support the CFC's mission to uncover the origin of galaxies, black holes and stars in the early universe.

One of the largest single structures in the sky, the cloud is about 40 moons across, but not visible to the unaided eye.

Steve Finkelstein, Danielle Berg, Adam Kraus, Stella Offner and John Chisholm are among UT Austin astronomers leading new James Webb Space Telescope projects.

Steven Finkelstein has been honored for his work to advance our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution at cosmic dawn.