astronomy
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March 12, 2025
U-M astronomers peer deeper into mysterious Flame Nebula
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, a team of researchers, including astronomers from U-M, are closing in on the answer to a looming cosmic question.
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February 24, 2025
It Happened at Michigan — First weather report’s creator had U-M roots
Cleveland Abbe, a U-M employee who studied astronomy in the late 1850s, eventually turned his focus to the weather and in 1869, created a regional weather service, based in Cincinnati.
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February 18, 2025
$10M NASA grant to fund U-M astronomy’s first satellite mission
The first space mission led by the Department of Astronomy is scheduled to launch in 2029 with support from a $10 million NASA grant. It will showcase the viability of a new technique for studying planets outside our solar system.
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February 18, 2025
Witnessing the birth of planets
An international collaboration including U-M researchers have used JWST to provide an unprecedented window into the formation of planets around young star systems.
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February 10, 2025
Accolades — February 2025
Awards and honors for faculty and staff from around the university.
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September 12, 2024
Elena Gallo to direct Women in Science and Engineering program
Elena Gallo, professor of astronomy, has been appointed the new director of U-M’s Women in Science and Engineering program, effective Sept. 15.
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April 8, 2024
PHOTO GALLERY: U-M turns out for the sun show
The Diag and much of Ingalls Mall were filled as students and other U-M community members watched the moon move between Earth and the sun, creating a solar eclipse April 8.
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March 5, 2024
Astronomer: Get to the path of April’s total solar eclipse
The sun and moon will trace a path across North America on April 8, bringing a total solar eclipse to a large swath of the United States.
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May 24, 2023
U-M only U.S. university helping build massive telescope
The Extremely Large Telescope — the largest optical telescope ever built — could change everything we know about the universe, and U-M is the only U.S. university involved in building it.
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November 21, 2022
Heritage Project — Vulcan’s muddy light
Astronomer James Craig Watson was U-M’s “brightest son.” After discovering 22 asteroids between 1863-77, during a solar eclipse in 1878, Watson was sure he’d observed the rumored intra-mercurial planet Vulcan.
