Dark Skies and Dark Energy Converge at a West Texas Star Party

Check out the great overview by the NY Times of UT Astronomy's work to understand Dark Energy from some of the darkest skies in the US! 🔭

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Astronomers Thought the Early Universe Was Full of Hydrogen. Now They’ve Found It. - HETDEX Astronomers using data from the Hobby–Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) have discovered tens of thousands of gigantic hydrogen gas halos, called “Lyman-alpha nebulae,” surrounding galax...

The University of Texas at Austin: Astronomers Thought the Early Universe Was Full of Hydrogen. Now They’ve Found It. hetdex.org/astronomers-...

Visualizing Science Contest Winners for 2026 Span Disciplines The college’s 2026 Visualizing Science competition finalists span a number of disciplines.

Congrats to all the winners of the 2026 Visualizing Science Contest, including UT Astronomy grad student Joohyun Lee and Professor Paul Shapiro! See all of the winning images here: cns.utexas.edu/news/feature...

A Night at the Telescope The Harlan J. Smith Scholars program takes undergraduate astronomy students out west to observe and capture data on one of the world’s largest telescopes.

A Night at the Telescope 🔭
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I’m so excited to be joining Astronomy on Tap ATX for their 97th show, along with my friend Ido Mizrahy! A night full of #astronomy talks, astronomy news, merch, and more!
March 16 - Celis Brewery 7PM
#AoTATX is FREE and open to all ages!
@astronomyontap.bsky.social @texasastronomy.bsky.social

Photograph of Dan Jaffe in front of an image of the Giant Magellan Telescope

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
Learn more cosmicai.org/astroai-boot... @simonsfoundation.org @utaustin.bsky.social

Public voting is now open for our 2026 Visualizing Science contest!

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

#SciArt #ArtinScience #ScienceArt #ScientificArt #ArtandScience @texas-ib.bsky.social @utaustinchemistry.bsky.social @texasastronomy.bsky.social @utmsi.bsky.social

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.
#Spectropolarimetry #Supernova @texasastronomy.bsky.social

More: mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/release...

Artist interpretation video by @eso.org:

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.

#BinaryStars @taccutexas.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social @mcdonaldobs.bsky.social
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Morning view of the campus of the University of Texas at Austin with the downtown Austin buildings in the distance

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!

#CottrellScholars #TexasScience @utaustin.bsky.social @texasastronomy.bsky.social @mcdonaldobs.bsky.social

PanelPicker | SXSW Conference & Festivals PanelPicker® is the official SXSW user-generated session proposal platform. Enter ideas and vote to help shape Conference programming for SXSW and SXSW EDU.

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

University of Texas at Austin: Meet the Universe’s Earliest Confirmed Black Hole: A Monster at the Dawn of Time news.utexas.edu/2025/08/06/m...