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Texas-Led Team Finds Earth-Sized, Habitable Zone Planet Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data
April 15, 2020
Continued Closure of McDonald Observatory
April 13, 2020
A Message from the Director
April 6, 2020
McDonald Observatory to Close to Visitors
March 13, 2020
McDonald Observatory Hires Teznie Pugh as New Superintendent
March 12, 2020
Planet Finder Validates Its First Habitable-Zone Exoplanet, a Mini Neptune
February 21, 2020
Distant Giant Planets Form Differently than ‘Failed Stars’
February 10, 2020
Caroline Morley Receives Annie Jump Cannon Award
February 7, 2020
Texas Astronomer Helps NASA Planet Hunter Find its First Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone World
January 7, 2020
Twin Astronomer Probes ‘DNA’ of Twin Stars to Reveal Family History of the Milky Way
December 20, 2019
UT Austin Astronomer Spies Most Distant Dusty Galaxy Hidden in Plain Sight
December 11, 2019
New Telescope Dedicated at McDonald Observatory
October 31, 2019
Giant Magellan Telescope Signs Contract for Telescope Structure
October 30, 2019
Newly Discovered Giant Planet Slingshots Around its Star
August 27, 2019
A Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet’s Surface
August 19, 2019
McDonald Observatory Will Promote Dark Skies Awareness with Gift from Apache Corporation
July 23, 2019
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