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Moonless in Seattle? Feast your eyes on global views of the total lunar eclipse
Skywatchers from Vancouver to Siberia shared their images of the total lunar eclipse. Julie Lutz, a UW astronomer, is quoted.
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Alien megastructure? Forget about it, weird star’s discoverers say after further study
The astronomers have fully ruled out that an alien megastructure might be responsible for the weirdly fluctuating light from a distant star.
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Space dust, not aliens: Two UW astronomers assist in new research on ‘mysterious’ star
KIC 8462852 is nicknamed “Tabby’s Star” after LSU astronomer Boyajian, who discovered it with the help of citizen scientists. UW astronomers co-authored.
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Piercing the mystery of the cosmic origins of gold
Explore the origins of cosmic gold, written by Jérôme Margueron, a visiting scientist at the UW's Institute for Nuclear Theory.
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Universities have a sexual harassment problem. Can they fix it?
Recent surveys have shown that large percentages of people working in academic fields, especially women and graduate students, have been victims of some form of sexual misconduct.
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UW astrobiologists to discuss work and introduce IMAX film, "The Search for Life in Space" at Pacific Science Center
On Wednesday, Dec. 6, three UW astrobiologists, including astronomy doctoral students, Brett Morris and Marshall Styczinski, will discuss their research at the Pacific Science Center.
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Giant black hole pair photobombs Andromeda Galaxy
It seems like even black holes can’t resist the temptation to insert themselves unannounced into photographs.
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Super-wide-angle Zwicky Transient Facility celebrates ‘first light’ with help from UW
A sky survey that draws upon the data-crunching skills of researchers at the UW has reached a milestone known as “first light."
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Zwicky Transient Facility Telescope, With 576-Megapixel Camera, Sees 'First Light'
A group of scientists from CalTech and the UW has modified an old telescope to create a powerful tool capable of capturing high-definition images of the Northern sky.
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With launch of new night sky survey, UW researchers ready for era of ‘big data’ astronomy
Scientists with the UW and nine additional partner institutions, announced that the Zwicky Transient Facility has seen “first light."
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Earth-sized alien worlds are out there. Now, astronomers are figuring out how to detect life on them
Victoria Meadows, professor of astronomy at the UW, is quoted.
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Gravitational wave hubbub hints at LIGO’s first sighting of a neutron star smash-up
Another big announcement about gravitational waves is coming up, and this time the hints point to observations in electromagnetic wavelengths as well.
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Our Nearest Neighboring Star Might Have Been Stolen From Somewhere Else
New evidence from a pair of scientists in the UK shows that our nearest star could have been "stolen." Russell Deitrick, UW graduate student in astronomy, is quoted.
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A 'Pale Green Dot': Why Proxima Centauri b May Have a Shiny Tint
A world orbiting the sun's closest stellar neighbor may have a shiny green tint to it. Rodrigo Luger, a postdoctoral researcher in astronomy at the UW, is quoted.
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Proxima b May Have An Aurora That We Can Detect
A study has suggested it might be possible to detect aurorae on Proxima b, the closest exoplanet to Earth, which might tell us about the planet’s potential habitability.