News Releases

2012

18 October 2012

Orionid Meteor Shower to Peak Oct. 20-21

09 October 2012

CANDELS team discovers dusty galaxies at ancient epoch with Hubble Space Telescope; tracks build-up of star- and planet-forming material

11 September 2012

Astronomers measure largest-ever magnetic field around massive star, time its slow rotation as it drags around giant cloak of trapped particles

29 August 2012

NASA, Texas astronomers find first multi-planet system around a binary star

28 August 2012

Astronomers Test Einstein in a New Regime Using Pair of Burnt-Out Stars

28 June 2012

Eiichiro Komatsu shares $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize with WMAP satellite team, for fundamental discoveries on the age, make-up, shape, and origin of the universe

19 June 2012

High School Students Explore Astronomical Research, Social Media at McDonald Observatory

31 May 2012

Astronomers Probe 'Evaporating' Planet Around Nearby Star with Hobby-Eberly Telescope

03 May 2012

Miller Wins $20K Grand Prize for Undergraduate Research from University Co-Op

23 April 2012

University of Texas at Austin names McDonald Observatory science instrument for philanthropists George and Cynthia Mitchell

09 April 2012

Las Cumbres Telescope Sees First Light at McDonald Observatory

23 March 2012

Mountaintop Blast for Giant Magellan Telescope; Video Available

12 January 2012

Karl Gebhardt Honored by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas

10 January 2012

Hubble Study Challenges 'Cosmic Fireworks' as Largest Driver of Galaxy Evolution

09 January 2012

Mirror Casting Event for the Giant Magellan Telescope on January 14

09 January 2012

New Instrument Peers Through the Heart of the Milky Way

2011

05 December 2011

Pair of Black Holes 'Weigh In' at 10 Billion Suns; Most Massive Yet

05 December 2011

NASA Mission, Texas Astronomers Collaborate to Find 'Goldilocks' Planet, Others

30 November 2011

Cosmic Explosion Explained Just in Time for Christmas; Texas-Korea Astronomical Partnership Contributes

08 November 2011

University of Texas at Austin Astronomer Sally Dodson-Robinson Receives Prestigious Career Grant from National Science Foundation

04 October 2011

University of Texas-led Team Discovers Unusual Multi-Planet System with NASA's Kepler Spacecraft

04 October 2011

University of Texas-led Team Discovers Unusual Multi-Planet System with NASA's Kepler Spacecraft

13 July 2011

Astronomers Discover Stars Locked in Fatalistic Dance

06 July 2011

Universo Radio Program to Cease Regular Production

30 June 2011

The New York Times Knowledge Network, Texas Education Agency, and McDonald Observatory Add Astronomy Content to Project Share Online Teachers Community

20 April 2011

Cascading Material Pours Onto a Young Star

29 March 2011

AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy Meets in Austin April 11-14

28 March 2011

Texas Astronomers Find Super-luminous Supernova, Follow up with Fleet of Telescopes in Space, on Earth

22 March 2011

Visit McDonald Observatory's Open House Saturday, April 9

02 March 2011

Buckyballs, Largest Known Molecules, More Common in Space Than Thought

17 February 2011

Students Link with McDonald Observatory at Blakemore Planetarium Feb. 24

03 February 2011

First Stars in the Universe Weren't Lonely

02 February 2011

Kepler Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates in Habitable Zone, Six Planet System

02 February 2011

Kepler Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates in Habitable Zone, Six Planet System

25 January 2011

First Light for VIRUS-W Spectrograph

12 January 2011

Astronomers 'Weigh' Heaviest Known Black Hole in our Cosmic Neighborhood

2010

28 October 2010

Texas Astronomer Wins Japanese Physics Prize

21 October 2010

University of Texas Students, Telescopes Help Discover Planets Around Elderly Binary Star

20 October 2010

Multi-University Project to Study 'Dark Energy' Receives $8 Million from National Science Foundation

13 September 2010

Tom Barnes Celebrates Six Months as Superintendent of McDonald Observatory

02 September 2010

New Hubble Observations of Supernova 1987a Reveal Composition of 'Star Guts' Pouring Out

16 July 2010

McDonald Observatory Dedicates Wheelchair-Accessible Telescope for Visitors

21 June 2010

McDonald Observatory Launches Dark Skies Initiative with Video, Radio Programs

14 June 2010

McDonald Astronomers Help Confirm CoRoT Satellite's New Crop of Extrasolar Planets

24 May 2010

'Out of Whack' Planetary System Offers Clues to Disturbing Past

21 April 2010

Media Advisory Astronomers Discuss 'Hubble 3D,' Cosmic Research at Bob Bullock Museum

02 April 2010

Recent Texas PhD Receives Trumpler Award from Astronomical Society of the Pacific

01 April 2010

Media Advisory Texas Poet Laureate Reads at McDonald Observatory During National Poetry Month

25 March 2010

Universo Radio Program Celebrates 15 Years

18 February 2010

Mary Kay Hemenway Awarded Education Prize by American Astronomical Society

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