News Releases

2014

14 January 2014

Leading Astronomer Taft Armandroff Appointed New Director of McDonald Observatory

2013

04 December 2013

Giant Magellan Telescope’s Third Mirror Unveiled

23 October 2013

Texas Astronomer Discovers Most Distant Known Galaxy

17 October 2013

Sky Survey Captures Key Details of Cosmic Explosions

08 October 2013

McDonald Observatory Celebrates 75 Years of Discovery

10 September 2013

Texas Astronomers Unravel 20-Year Dark Matter Mystery with New Computer Models

02 September 2013

Texas Astronomers Use ALMA to Reveal Luminous Starbirth in the Milky Way

22 August 2013

Don Winget Receives Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award

30 July 2013

Alan Y. Chow Telescope Dedicated at McDonald Observatory's Frank N. Bash Visitors Center

17 July 2013

Northrop Grumman to Sponsor StarDate

02 July 2013

Mary Kay Hemenway Receives National Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Understanding of Astronomy

19 June 2013

Texas Astronomers Discover Pulsations in Crystalized, Dying Star

30 May 2013

Science and Music Under the Stars Saturday in Marfa

09 May 2013

Paul Shapiro Elected to Chair the American Physical Society Division of Astrophysics

23 April 2013

Texas House, Senate Honor McDonald Observatory for 75 Years of Excellence

23 January 2013

Sally Dodson-Robinson Wins Annie Jump Cannon Award

07 January 2013

Exocomets May be as Common as Exoplanets

2012

29 November 2012

Neal Evans Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

28 November 2012

Texas Astronomers Measure Most Massive, Most Unusual Black Hole Using Hobby-Eberly Telescope

25 October 2012

The White Widow Model: A New Scenario for the Birth of Type Ia Supernovae

23 October 2012

World's Most Advanced Mirror for Giant Telescope Completed

18 October 2012

Orionid Meteor Shower to Peak Oct. 20-21

09 October 2012

CANDELS team discovers dusty galaxies at ancient epoch with Hubble Space Telescope; tracks build-up of star- and planet-forming material

11 September 2012

Astronomers measure largest-ever magnetic field around massive star, time its slow rotation as it drags around giant cloak of trapped particles

29 August 2012

NASA, Texas astronomers find first multi-planet system around a binary star

28 August 2012

Astronomers Test Einstein in a New Regime Using Pair of Burnt-Out Stars

28 June 2012

Eiichiro Komatsu shares $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize with WMAP satellite team, for fundamental discoveries on the age, make-up, shape, and origin of the universe

19 June 2012

High School Students Explore Astronomical Research, Social Media at McDonald Observatory

31 May 2012

Astronomers Probe 'Evaporating' Planet Around Nearby Star with Hobby-Eberly Telescope

03 May 2012

Miller Wins $20K Grand Prize for Undergraduate Research from University Co-Op

23 April 2012

University of Texas at Austin names McDonald Observatory science instrument for philanthropists George and Cynthia Mitchell

09 April 2012

Las Cumbres Telescope Sees First Light at McDonald Observatory

23 March 2012

Mountaintop Blast for Giant Magellan Telescope; Video Available

12 January 2012

Karl Gebhardt Honored by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas

10 January 2012

Hubble Study Challenges 'Cosmic Fireworks' as Largest Driver of Galaxy Evolution

09 January 2012

Mirror Casting Event for the Giant Magellan Telescope on January 14

09 January 2012

New Instrument Peers Through the Heart of the Milky Way

2011

05 December 2011

Pair of Black Holes 'Weigh In' at 10 Billion Suns; Most Massive Yet

05 December 2011

NASA Mission, Texas Astronomers Collaborate to Find 'Goldilocks' Planet, Others

30 November 2011

Cosmic Explosion Explained Just in Time for Christmas; Texas-Korea Astronomical Partnership Contributes

08 November 2011

University of Texas at Austin Astronomer Sally Dodson-Robinson Receives Prestigious Career Grant from National Science Foundation

04 October 2011

University of Texas-led Team Discovers Unusual Multi-Planet System with NASA's Kepler Spacecraft

04 October 2011

University of Texas-led Team Discovers Unusual Multi-Planet System with NASA's Kepler Spacecraft

13 July 2011

Astronomers Discover Stars Locked in Fatalistic Dance

06 July 2011

Universo Radio Program to Cease Regular Production

30 June 2011

The New York Times Knowledge Network, Texas Education Agency, and McDonald Observatory Add Astronomy Content to Project Share Online Teachers Community

20 April 2011

Cascading Material Pours Onto a Young Star

29 March 2011

AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy Meets in Austin April 11-14

28 March 2011

Texas Astronomers Find Super-luminous Supernova, Follow up with Fleet of Telescopes in Space, on Earth

22 March 2011

Visit McDonald Observatory's Open House Saturday, April 9

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