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The explosive death of a star at its earliest, fleeting stage has been revealed by the ESO & a group of astronomers — including UT’s J. Craig Wheeler.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Giant Magellan Telescope: Taft Armandroff and Brian Schmidt Elected to Lead Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors giantmagellan.org/2025/11/04/t...
Taft Armandroff and Brian Schmidt Elected to Lead Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors
New leadership appointed to guide the next phase of construction as Dr. Walter Massey concludes nearly a decade of service as chair of the GMTO Corporation Board of Directors
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November 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The University of Texas at Austin: Tiny Galaxy, Big Find: Black Hole Discovered in Nearby Segue 1 mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/release...
Tiny Galaxy, Big Find: Black Hole Discovered in Nearby Segue 1 | McDonald Observatory
Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars – too few to provide the gravity needed to keep itself from scattering into space. Like other dwarf galaxies, ...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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New research from UT astronomers could change how we look at binary star formation.

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Born Together: A New Look at Binary Stars
Two Oden faculty, postdoctoral fellow Aleksey Generozov and professor Stella Offner, published a gro...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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We're hiring!
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position in Astronomy | American Astronomical Society
The Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level to begin in August 2026. We welcome applicati...
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October 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Welcome back Longhorns! 🤘Wishing you all a great new academic year. 🎓
Morning view of the campus of the University of Texas at Austin with the downtown Austin buildings in the distance
August 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Congrats to Stella Offner on earning a Cottrell Scholar Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery (SEED) Award for 2025!

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August 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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August 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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University of Texas at Austin: Meet the Universe’s Earliest Confirmed Black Hole: A Monster at the Dawn of Time news.utexas.edu/2025/08/06/m...
Meet the Universe’s Earliest Confirmed Black Hole: A Monster at the Dawn of Time
AUSTIN, Texas — An international team of astronomers, led by The University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier Center, has identified the most distant
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August 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM