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SETI and other alien-hunting strategies are dealing with new tools — and new troubles
Victoria Meadows, astronomy professor, explains the utility of new telescope and observatory technology in the search for extraterrestrial life.
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Scientist Explains How Observatories Will Detect Signs Of Alien Life In Exoplanets
Victoria Meadows, astronomy professor, discusses new telescope and observatory technology and how it relates to the search for extraterrestrials.
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Astronomers to sweep entire sky for signs of extraterrestrial life
Victoria Meadows, astronomy professor, describes observations planned with the intention of searching for extraterrestrial life.
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Big telescopes join hunt for things that go flash in the night
Eric Bellm, research assistant professor of astronomy, discusses new technology is space observation.
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What if Earth were a super-Earth?
Rory Barnes, assistant professor of astronomy, puzzles what would happen if Earth were a superplanet.
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A star called Betelgeuse might be ready to explode into a giant supernova
Emily Levesque, assistant professor of astronomy, elaborates on how new observations have allowed a star to be studied more closely.
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Not so far, far away: How the Star Wars galaxy falls short of the real-life search for planets
Rory Barnes, assistant professor of astronomy, discusses the feasibility of aspects of the galaxy in which sci-fi movie series Star Wars takes place in.
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UW astronomy professor Paula Szkody elected to American Astronomical Society leadership
University of Washington Professor of Astronomy Paula Szkody will serve as the AAS president starting in 2020.
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Hubble captures galaxies’ ghostly gaze
Julianne Dalcanton, professor and chair of astronomy at the UW, led the team that captured an image that may look like a ghostly apparition, but it is not.
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Galaxy found to float in a tranquil sea of halo gas
Assistant Professor of Astronomy Matthew McQuinn has teamed up with an international team of astronomers to discover more about the clouds of gas surrounding galaxies.
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The Space Between Galaxies Isn’t Empty
Assistant Professor of Astronomy Jessica Werk describes the evolution of galaxies from gas in the early universe to the present
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James Webb Space Telescope could begin learning about TRAPPIST-1 atmospheres in a single year, study indicates
New research from astronomers at the UW.
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Finding Their Place
Four graduating seniors share the places that defined their UW experience.
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Two UW students honored by Goldwater Foundation
Selected from 1,223 nominees from across the country, Natural Sciences undergraduates Chris Moore and Irika Sinha were named Goldwater Scholars.
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Feast Your Eyes on the First Image of A Black Hole
Emily Levesque, an astronomer at the UW, weighs in on the significance of the first image of a black hole.