News Releases

2011

02 February 2011

Kepler Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates in Habitable Zone, Six Planet System

25 January 2011

First Light for VIRUS-W Spectrograph

12 January 2011

Astronomers 'Weigh' Heaviest Known Black Hole in our Cosmic Neighborhood

2010

28 October 2010

Texas Astronomer Wins Japanese Physics Prize

21 October 2010

University of Texas Students, Telescopes Help Discover Planets Around Elderly Binary Star

20 October 2010

Multi-University Project to Study 'Dark Energy' Receives $8 Million from National Science Foundation

13 September 2010

Tom Barnes Celebrates Six Months as Superintendent of McDonald Observatory

02 September 2010

New Hubble Observations of Supernova 1987a Reveal Composition of 'Star Guts' Pouring Out

16 July 2010

McDonald Observatory Dedicates Wheelchair-Accessible Telescope for Visitors

21 June 2010

McDonald Observatory Launches Dark Skies Initiative with Video, Radio Programs

14 June 2010

McDonald Astronomers Help Confirm CoRoT Satellite's New Crop of Extrasolar Planets

24 May 2010

'Out of Whack' Planetary System Offers Clues to Disturbing Past

21 April 2010

Media Advisory Astronomers Discuss 'Hubble 3D,' Cosmic Research at Bob Bullock Museum

02 April 2010

Recent Texas PhD Receives Trumpler Award from Astronomical Society of the Pacific

01 April 2010

Media Advisory Texas Poet Laureate Reads at McDonald Observatory During National Poetry Month

25 March 2010

Universo Radio Program Celebrates 15 Years

18 February 2010

Mary Kay Hemenway Awarded Education Prize by American Astronomical Society

2009

21 October 2009

Mary Kay Hemenway Speaks on 'The Galileo Scandal' in El Paso October 23

09 October 2009

Boston University Astronomers Detect Sodium Gas Ejected by Lunar Impact

05 October 2009

David Lambert Delivers Talk ‘Dark Ages to Dark Energy' in Midland October 9

09 July 2009

New McDonald Observatory Instrument Revolutionizes Galaxy Studies

26 June 2009

Tom Barnes Discusses McDonald Observatory History at Austin's Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum July 1

16 June 2009

StarDate Magazine Launches Media Service with Planetary Line-Up in Pre-Dawn Sky June 19-21

10 June 2009

Neal Evans Delivers Talk on 'Time, Space, and Galileo' at San Antonio's Witte Museum June 21

08 June 2009

Texas-Sized Computer Finds Most Massive Black Hole in Galaxy M87

23 May 2009

McDonald Observatory Holds Open House April 4, Celebrates International Year of Astronomy

05 May 2009

University of Texas at Austin Astronomer is Co-Investigator in Search for Earth-like Planets

16 March 2009

Texas Cosmology Center Established at The University of Texas at Austin

08 March 2009

WMAP Reveals Neutrinos, End of Dark Ages, First Second of Universe

24 February 2009

Texas Legislature Honors University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University for Joint Efforts in Astronomy

24 February 2009

Don Winget Delivers Talk on 'Scale and Contents of the Universe' in Laredo March 7

23 February 2009

Media Advisory: Legislature's Joint Resolution to Recognize University of Texas at Austin, A&M Astronomy Work

17 February 2009

AEP Texas Funds Scholarships for West Texas Schools to Bring K-12 Students to McDonald Observatory

02 February 2009

Astronomers Discover Links Between Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Formation

2008

25 November 2008

Universo Radio Program Airs 5,000th Episode, Brings Astronomy & Skylore to Spanish-Speaking Audience

19 November 2008

Scientists Discover New Planet Orbiting Dangerously Close to Giant Star

05 November 2008

Galactic Luminaries to Converge on University of Texas Tuesday

22 October 2008

Astronomers Quimby, Wheeler Win Hyer Award from American Physical Society's Texas Section

19 September 2008

Astronomers Discover Key Molecule for Life Floating in Space Between the Stars

21 July 2008

Advertising Students Practice Real-Word Campaigning; Compete to Aid UT Astronomy Program

02 June 2008

Grant Funds Boy Scout Program, More, at McDonald Observatory

07 May 2008

Recent Texas PhD Awarded Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in Astronomy

01 May 2008

McDonald Observatory Astronomers Discover New Type of Pulsating White Dwarf Star

22 April 2008

Award-winning, Solar-powered House Built by University of Texas Students Comes to McDonald Observatory

15 April 2008

Presidents of Texas' Two Flagship Universities Powell and Murano, Philanthropist Mitchell Encourage Texans to Support Telescope Project

02 April 2008

Astronomers Find Suspected Medium-Sized Black Hole in Omega Centauri

07 February 2008

McDonald Observatory Receives $190,000 NASA Grant; Will Train Texas Elementary, Middle School Teachers in Science Education

10 January 2008

New Instrument, Telescope Upgrades Enable Pioneering Dark Energy Experiment at McDonald Observatory

09 January 2008

Study of 'GEMS' from Hubble, Spitzer Space Telescopes Reveals Cosmic Fireworks Fizzled Out at Universe Reached Mid-Lif

2007

05 December 2007

Texas Astronomer Makes First Ground-Based Detection of Extra-Solar Planet Atmosphere with HET

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