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Trick or Treat: Spooky Science to Give You a Scare
Halloween is a good season to treat yourself to some thrilling discoveries from scientists at UT Austin.
PNAS
QnAs with Katherine Freese
Katherine Freese is interviewed for PNAS by Paul Gabrielsen about dark matter and dark energy.
2024 Weinberg Memorial Lecture
Dr. James Peebles, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics, joins the Weinberg Institute at UT Austin's Physics Department to present "The Expanding Universe...
Postcards from the Field: First Light for a New High-Desert Telescope
Scientists at the Simons Observatory in Chile, including Katie Freese and Nick Galitzki, probe the cosmic microwave background for clues about the history of the...
Fox 7
Total Eclipse of the Horns
UT Austin's Julian Munoz, assistant professor of astronomy, talked about the total eclipse with a local TV station.
2024 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
Did the James Webb Space Telescope Change Astrophysics? | 2024 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
Join Neil deGrasse Tyson, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, and a panel of leading scientists, including Prof. Mike Boylan-Kolchin, for a...
UT News
What Can A Total Solar Eclipse Teach Us About Our Universe?
The total solar eclipse on April 8 will be a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness a truly awesome cosmological marvel. You don’t need...
KXAN
Ultramassive galaxy discovery provides new look at early universe
Julian Muñoz, of the UT Department of Astronomy, recently published a paper that attempts to understand early galaxies.
UT News
Discovery of Unexpected Ultramassive Galaxies May Not Rewrite Cosmology, But Still Leaves Questions
“The development of objects in the universe is hierarchical. You start small and get bigger and bigger,” said Julian Muñoz at The University of Texas...
Capturing the ripples of spacetime: LISA gets go-ahead
The European Space Agency officially adopts the LISA mission. Members of the CGP have leadership role in the LISA Consortium, including Professors Chen, Shoemaker, and...