2022
“196 lasers help scientists recreate the conditions inside gigantic galaxy clusters”, UChicago News by Louise Lerner
March 12, 2022
Experiments point the way to solving mystery that keeps clusters hot.
Michael Zhang, Inaugural Margarett Burbidge Prize Postdoc Fellow
March 1, 2022
Meet new Department member: Michael Zhang, Inaugural Margarett Burbidge Prize Postdoc Fellow
Tsang Keung Chan, Inaugural Margarett Burbidge Prize Postdoc Fellow
March 1, 2022
Meet new Department member: Tsang Keung Chan, Inaugural Margarett Burbidge Prize Postdoc Fellow
“Twelve for dinner: How the Milky Way ‘ate’ smaller star clusters and galaxies”, UChicago News
January 12, 2022
Study including UChicago scientists creates map of nearby stellar streams and dark matter
NASA gives go-ahead for $20M multi-institution balloon experiment led by UChicago scientists
January 6, 2022
University of Chicago physicist Abby Vieregg is leading an international experiment that essentially uses the ice in Antarctica as a giant detector to find extremely energetic particles from outer space. Recently approved by NASA, the $20 million project will build an instrument to fly above the Antarctic in a balloon, launching in December 2024.
2021
Black holes have tantrums, and scientists have finally captured the resulting gamma rays
November 18, 2021
Prof. Eugene Parker accepts prestigious Crafoord Prize in Astronomy
November 18, 2021
“Priorities for next 10 years of astronomy include exoplanets, early days of universe”, UChicago News
November 8, 2021
Astro2020 survey prioritizes UChicago-affiliated projects such as Giant Magellan Telescope, CMB-S4
Congratulations to Dr. Gregory Gilbert
September 15, 2021
Congratulations to Gregory Gilbert for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on "Toward an Accurate Census of Exoplanets and Exoplanetary Systems" (PhD Advisor: Daniel Fabrycky)
“Event Horizon Telescope takes pioneering image of massive jet spewing from black hole”, UChicago News
July 26, 2021
UChicago-led South Pole Telescope helps pinpoint location of supermassive black hole in galaxy Centaurus A
“Solving the biggest mysteries of our universe, with Dan Hooper”, UChicago News
June 3, 2021
Cosmologist discusses what happened after the Big Bang, ‘breaking’ the Standard Model of Physics
“Dark Energy Survey releases most precise look yet at the universe’s evolution”, UChicago News
June 1, 2021
The Dark Energy Survey mapped an eighth of the night sky from a mountaintop in Chile.
“A UChicago astronomer’s decades-long quest to map millions of stars”, by Natalie Lund, UChicago News
May 22, 2021
Sloan Digital Sky Survey founder Richard Kron leaves legacy of scientific discovery and education
Jazmine Jefferson has been awarded a 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
April 6, 2021
Jazmine Jefferson is a second year PhD student in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
“Using powerful lasers, scientists recreate how magnetic fields grow in clusters of galaxies”, by Louise Lerner, UChicago News
March 16, 2021
“This work blazes a path to laboratory investigations of a variety of astrophysical processes mediated by magnetized turbulence,” said Don Lamb, the Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago and principal investigator of the Turbulent Dynamo team National Laser User’s Facility project. “It’s truly exciting to see the scientific results that the ingenuity of this team is making possible.”