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News from the Observatory
13 March 2020
McDonald Observatory to Close to Visitors
12 March 2020
McDonald Observatory Hires Teznie Pugh as New Superintendent
21 February 2020
Planet Finder Validates Its First Habitable-Zone Exoplanet
10 February 2020
Distant Giant Planets Form Differently than ‘Failed Stars’
7 February 2020
Caroline Morley Receives Annie Jump Cannon Award
7 January 2020
Finding TESS Mission's First Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone World
20 December 2019
Twin Astronomer Probes ‘DNA’ of Twin Stars
11 December 2019
Astronomer Spies Most Distant Dusty Galaxy Hidden in Plain Sight
