A Galactic Jigsaw The spherical halo of ancient stars surrounding our Milky Way galaxy is like a puzzle that graduate student Ian Roederer is trying to solve. But first, he has to find the puzzle’s pieces. “We’re trying to figure out what the original pieces looked like, and what pieces go where,” he says.
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Discovering a New Type of Star University of Texas at Austin astronomers Mike Montgomery and Kurtis Williams, along with graduate student Steven DeGennaro, have predicted and confirmed the existence of a new type of variable star with the help of the 2.1-meter Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory. The discovery was announced in the May 1 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters. More »
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Dwarf Tails Mike Siegel is studying one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, called the 'Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal' galaxy. He is using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. More »
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Exploring Nearby Stars Earle Luck of Case Western Reserve University continues his study of stars in the Sun's neighborhood, using the 2.1-meter Otto Struve Telescope. More »
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NASA Astronomer of the Week: Shardha Jogee We all start to party less around middle age, and new studies by a team led by University of Texas at Austin astronomer Shardha Jogee now finds that the universe, as a whole, is no exception. Shardha discussed her results today at a news conference last week at the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas. More »
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Predicting the Present from the Past  University of Texas graduate student Josh Adams is looking billions of years into the past, at a radio galaxy that, by the present day, may be the center of a huge cluster of galaxies. “We don’t know what it looks like now,” Josh says. “That’s what we’re trying to figure out.” More »
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 This program is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant AST 0227870. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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