2024
‘Weird’ Ancient Galaxy Discovered by James Webb Space Telescope
September 26, 2024
A "totally new phenomenon" has been discovered by astronomers in a strange galaxy from the dawn of time.
NSF and Simons Foundation launch $20 million National AI Research Institute in Astronomy
September 18, 2024
SkAI Institute will develop AI tools and accelerate astronomy’s data-driven revolution
At Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, UChicago student unravels the mysteries of galaxies
September 10, 2024
During summer internship in Germany, rising fourth-year Zewei Wu simulates astrophysical plasma
UChicago astrophysicist Rafael Luque receives ‘Starting Grant’ from the European Research Council
September 5, 2024
UChicago postdoctoral researcher Rafael Luque has obtained a Starting Grant awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) for the THIRSTEE project. The project's objective is to study and understand the origin and properties of sub-Neptune-type planets, the most common around solar-type stars (similar to our sun) in the Milky Way. The grant of 1.5 million euros over the next five years is part of the European Union's Horizon Europe program.
Giant Magellan Telescope Mount Fabrication Begins
August 30, 2024
The Giant Magellan Telescope and Ingersoll Machine Tools Inc. today announced the start of manufacturing and assembly of the largest telescope mount built in the United States.
New Webb Telescope data suggests our model of the universe may hold up after all
August 22, 2024
UChicago-led analysis measures universe expansion rate, finds there may not be a ‘Hubble tension’
NASA’s Webb telescope peers into the boundary between day and night on a distant world
August 20, 2024
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have glimpsed tantalizing new details about what it’s like at the boundary of a tidally locked planet—that is, one where half of the planet is always exposed to its star, while the other is always shrouded in darkness.
Dan Hooper named director of WIPAC
July 31, 2024
Astronomy & Astrophysics and KICP Professor and FNAL Senior Scientist Dan Hooper has been selected as the new director of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC).
Revived technology used to count individual photons from distant galaxies
June 27, 2024
Enabled by a U.S. Department of Energy program, a collaboration of scientists from Fermilab, UChicago, NOIRLab, and other institutions demonstrated that skipper-CCD detectors can be utilized to improve cosmology research.
Simons Observatory Begins Hunt for Echoes of the Big Bang in Universe’s Oldest Light
June 5, 2024
The observatory’s four telescopes will make the most precise measurements ever taken of the cosmic microwave background and reveal information about what happened just after the universe’s birth
Abigail Lee and Hanjue Zhu won the 2024 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics
May 30, 2024
CCAPP is proud to announce Abigail Lee (U. Chicago) and Hanjue Zhu (U. Chicago) as the winners of the 2024 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics
Wendy Freedman has been awarded the Georges Lemaître International Prize
May 30, 2024
Prof. Freedman is a Canadian-American cosmologist at the University of Chicago who works in the area of refining measurement of the Hubble Constant. She is renowned for her work on Cepheid variable stars through a Hubble Space Telescope Key Project. Her work and accomplishments are closely connected to the big-bang theory of Georges Lemaître.
Atop a Chilean mountain, undergraduate students make cutting-edge astronomical observations, UChicago News
May 28, 2024
UChicago students conduct research at Magellan Observatory as part of new field course
Ava Polzin won the audience prize in UChicagoGRAD’s Thesis competition
May 21, 2024
Ava Polzin, Astronomy and Astrophysics “The Smallest Pieces of the Puzzle: Using Dwarf Galaxies to Understand the Universe”
Congratulations to Dr. Zhuowen (Ben) Zhang
April 26, 2024
Congratulations to Zhuowen (Ben) Zhang for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on "Forward modeling of cluster systematics for cluster cosmology".