News Releases

2006

04 April 2006

McDonald Observatory introduces new Fire Marshal, more during 'Texas Wildfire Awareness Week'

04 April 2006

McDonald Observatory introduces new Fire Marshal, more during 'Texas Wildfire Awareness Week'

27 March 2006

New 'MONET/North' telescope to be dedicated at McDonald Observatory tomorrow

09 March 2006

International team of astronomers discovers origins of 'extreme helium stars'

20 February 2006

Amateur astronomers make first sighting of '10th planet' through McDonald Observatory telescope

11 January 2006

Astronomers Use Spitzer Space Telescope to Challenge Brown Dwarf Formation Models

2005

01 December 2005

Astronomers find most stable optical clock in the heavens

09 November 2005

University of Texas at Austin helped build giant African telescope

20 September 2005

Astronomers find improved evidence for supermassive black hole in Andromeda galaxy, uncover new mystery

08 September 2005

Texas astronomers, others find dead stars collecting dust

01 September 2005

Beautiful images from SALT mark 'first light' for Africa's giant eye

25 July 2005

Joint project with Texas Forest Service makes McDonald Observatory safer, brings national recognition

21 July 2005

Texas flagship universities celebrate milestone in Giant Magellan Telescope partnership

07 June 2005

McDonald Observatory receives $750,000 gift from Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

26 May 2005

Six College Students to Spend Summer at McDonald Observatory

13 May 2005

McDonald Observatory explains 'space weather' to students live via statewide videoconference

03 May 2005

McDonald Observatory, Terlingua Preservation Foundation Unite to Preserve Dark West Texas Skies

01 March 2005

Universo radio program celebrates 10 years, brings astronomy & skylore to Spanish-speaking audience

24 February 2005

Texas astronomer J. Craig Wheeler elected President of American Astronomical Society

18 February 2005

Magnetar flare blitzed Earth Dec. 27, could solve cosmic mysteries

10 January 2005

McDonald Observatory Plans Outdoor 'Parallax Park'

07 January 2005

New Site, HET Managers at McDonald Observatory

04 January 2005

Texas Astronomers find Mystery Object in 'Starless Core' with Spitzer Space Telescope

2004

13 October 2004

High School Students Spend Night In Computer Lab, Help McDonald Observatory Search For Planets

27 September 2004

McDonald Observatory and Partners Receive Federal Appropriation, Move Forward Plans to Develop New Astronomy Facility

20 September 2004

StarDate Teams with Humanities Texas, Brings Native Skies to Nation's Airwaves

31 August 2004

McDonald Observatory Astronomers Discover Neptune-Sized Planet with Hobby-Eberly Telescope

03 August 2004

Mitchell Gift to Texas A&M, Support from The University of Texas at Austin Allow Flagship Universities to Join Telescope Consortium

09 July 2004

Texas Astronomers Find & Confirm Extrasolar Planet in Record Time with Hobby-Eberly Telescope

21 June 2004

Texas Astronomer Wins ASP's Muhlmann Award for Infrared Instruments

17 June 2004

'Blazar' Illuminates Era When Stars & Galaxies Formed

16 June 2004

Stellar Symposium Honors David Lambert's Birthday

02 June 2004

Astronomers Probe the Environment of Exploding Stars with HET, Computer Models

14 May 2004

Students Go Live Online with McDonald Observatory to Search for Planets

19 April 2004

McDonald Observatory Astronomer to Lead Study of 'Vision Mission' Space Observatory for NASA

19 April 2004

McDonald Observatory Co-Sponsors Lecture on ‘Scientific Development and the Democratic Process in South Africa’

16 April 2004

Hobby-Eberly Telescope Witnesses Vaporizing of a Cometlike Body by a Very Young Hot Star

23 March 2004

Komatsu Receives Young Astronomer Award from Astronomical Society of Japan Today

22 March 2004

Peeking at a Puzzling Supernova with Spectropolarimetry

08 March 2004

McDonald Observatory Hosts Special Events in Mid-March

12 January 2004

Giant Galaxy String Defies Model of How Universe Evolved

02 January 2004

Duncan Shares Bruno Rossi Prize for Ultra-magnetic Stars

2003

09 December 2003

Astronomers Re-measure the Universe with Hubble Space Telescope

19 November 2003

Scientists Develop Cheap Method for Solar System Hunt Using McDonald Observatory Telescope

20 October 2003

McDonald Observatory Receives Multi-Year Grant to Train Students

08 October 2003

Einstein’s Biggest Blunder?

29 September 2003

McDonald Observatory & Partners Receive Federal Appropriation, Will Bring New Research Telescope to Texas

13 August 2003

Lambert to Lead McDonald Observatory

06 August 2003

Exploding Stars: Asymmetry with Cosmological Consequences

11 July 2003

Summer Brings New Attractions to McDonald Observatory

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