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August 23, 2017
Bruce Balick, a professor emeritus from the Department of Astronomy, observed chickens during the eclipse. geekwire.com
August 23, 2017
Buildings across campus and the city were "closed for science" during Monday's eclipse. seattletimes.com
August 18, 2017
Bruce Balick, UW professor emeritus of astronomy, shared a few thoughts that he’s written for the upcoming event. washington.edu
August 15, 2017
UW astrophysicist is part of an expert panel about the eclipse. seattletimes.com
August 15, 2017
Exoplanets to be found by coming high-powered telescopes will probably be tidally locked -- according to new research by astronomer Rory Barnes of the University of Washington. washington.edu
July 27, 2017
Half of the atoms making up everything around you are intergalactic interlopers. Jessica Werk, assistant professor of astronomy at the UW, is quoted. newscientist.com
July 27, 2017
It turns out that, if new estimates are right, half of the atoms in our galaxy could have been stolen from other galaxies. Jessica Werk, assistant professor of astronomy at the UW, is quoted. gizmodo.com
June 29, 2017
In five years, a sky-scanning telescope in Chile will begin hunting the heavens for asteroids on a collision course with Earth, scientists at the UW work to spot them. seattletimes.com
June 27, 2017
NASA may be closing down its grand plan to study a piece of an asteroid up close, but the researchers who focus on near-Earth objects aren’t turning their backs on asteroids. geekwire.com
June 16, 2017
If exoplanets around M dwarfs host life, it’s probably very different from that on Earth sciencenews.org
June 8, 2017
Lupita Tovar never expected to go to a four-year college. Now she's a UW graduate pursuing a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics. Read More
June 6, 2017
An unexpected rain of spiders led to a lovely Twitter geek-out between astronomers and arachnologists. theatlantic.com
May 31, 2017
Considerable attention has been devoted to the difficulties facing women in computer sciences, the problems and the search for solutions extend across the range of STEM fields. crosscut.com
May 26, 2017
Astronomers need to know how stars form and black holes burst -- and how to pry that information from the many terabytes of data that will stream from next-generation telescopes. wired.com