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UT Astronomer Appointed President of Organization Building World’s Most Powerful Telescope

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Registration is open! AI Boot Camp For Astronomers
Presented by the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins and the Texas Advanced Computing Center
June 1st-5th 2026
Location: Pickle Research Campus, UT Austin
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Public voting is now open for our 2026 Visualizing Science contest!

See this year’s entries & vote at txsci.net/2026VisSciEntries

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The explosive death of a star at its earliest, fleeting stage has been revealed by the ESO & a group of astronomers — including UT’s J. Craig Wheeler.
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Taft Armandroff and Brian Schmidt Elected to Lead Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors New leadership appointed to guide the next phase of construction as Dr. Walter Massey concludes nearly a decade of service as chair of the GMTO Corporation Board of Directors

Giant Magellan Telescope: Taft Armandroff and Brian Schmidt Elected to Lead Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors giantmagellan.org/2025/11/04/t...

The University of Texas at Austin: Tiny Galaxy, Big Find: Black Hole Discovered in Nearby Segue 1 mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/release...

Born Together: A New Look at Binary Stars Two Oden faculty, postdoctoral fellow Aleksey Generozov and professor Stella Offner, published a gro...

New research from UT astronomers could change how we look at binary star formation.

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Welcome back Longhorns! 🤘Wishing you all a great new academic year. 🎓

Congrats to Stella Offner on earning a Cottrell Scholar Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery (SEED) Award for 2025!

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Vote to bring our panel “Revolutionizing Astronomy+ AI with Next Generation Big Data” to SXSW! Register for a SXSW account & vote by clicking the heart ❤️ - open now til Aug 24! participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx...

Meet the Universe’s Earliest Confirmed Black Hole: A Monster at the Dawn of Time AUSTIN, Texas — An international team of astronomers, led by The University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier Center, has identified the most distant

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