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Famous Red Star Betelgeuse is Spinning Faster than Expected; May Have Swallowed a Companion 100,000 Years Ago
December 19, 2016
Walter E. Massey and Taft Armandroff Selected to Lead Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors
November 16, 2016
Astronomers Discover Rocky Planet Orbiting Nearest Star, Proxima Centauri
August 24, 2016
A New Kind of Black Hole, Once a Theory, Now Firmly within Observers’ Sight
July 6, 2016
Texas Astronomer Finds Young ‘Super-Neptune,’ New Planet Offers Clues to the Origin of Close-in Exoplanets
June 20, 2016
Supermassive Black Holes Cause Galactic Warming
May 25, 2016
Brendan Bowler Wins Hubble Fellowship
April 6, 2016
First Discovery of a Binary Companion for a Type Ia Supernova
March 22, 2016
CosmoQuest Partners, Including McDonald Observatory, Share $11.5 Million to Expand Astronomy Outreach Programs
March 11, 2016
Newly Discovered Planet in the Hyades Cluster Could Shed Light on Planetary Evolution
February 24, 2016