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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.
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Here's Why They Put A Bunch Of Women On The Ceiling At Grand Central Terminal
Step inside the Main Concourse of Grand Central Terminal and you'll see a lot of hurried faces peeking at the ceiling. Emily Levesque, an astronomer at the UW, is quoted.
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Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting
Gossip over potential detection of colliding neutron stars has astronomers in a tizzy. Peter Yoachim, a UW astronomer, is quoted.
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Seattle companies to workers for eclipse: Stop working and go outside
Buildings across campus and the city were "closed for science" during Monday's eclipse.
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I watched a flock of chickens during the solar eclipse so that you didn’t have to
Bruce Balick, a professor emeritus from the Department of Astronomy, observed chickens during the eclipse.
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‘Be sure to look around you’: Tips on Seattle eclipse viewing
Bruce Balick, UW professor emeritus of astronomy, shared a few thoughts that he’s written for the upcoming event.
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Got questions about the solar eclipse happening Aug. 21? We’ve got answers.
UW astrophysicist is part of an expert panel about the eclipse.
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Tidally locked exoplanets may be more common than previously thought
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.
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Half the atoms inside your body came from across the universe
Half of the atoms making up everything around you are intergalactic interlopers. Jessica Werk, assistant professor of astronomy at the UW, is quoted.
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Half of our galaxy might come from other galaxies
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.
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By teaching computers to track asteroids, UW scientists may save the Earth
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.
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Are asteroids leaving the spotlight? No way, say Asteroid Day activists
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.
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Life might have a shot on planets orbiting dim red stars
If exoplanets around M dwarfs host life, it’s probably very different from that on Earth