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The Fall 2017 Washburn Observer

Read our latest newsletter, with exciting science, updates on department news, stories about life as an astronomer, and much more.

Oct.26.2017 | Continue Reading »

Welcome ‘17/‘18 Class of Grad Students!

We are thrilled to welcome the incoming class of graduate students, Aaron Lopez, Catherine Witherspoon, and Joshua Oppor, to the department,

Oct.05.2017 | Continue Reading »

SALT Digs Up Hot Gas Above Galaxy M83

UW grad student Erin Boettcher used the RSS spectrograph on SALT to detect and study ionized gas above and below the disk of Messier 83, a famous disk galaxy.

Aug.30.2017 | Continue Reading »

Magnetic Fields Halfway Across the Cosmos

UW Astronomers were part of a team that measured the magnetic field strength in a far-away galaxy, using a newly developed technique that involves gravitational lensing.

Aug.28.2017 | Continue Reading »

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Events

"Simulations of Black Hole Accretion and Outflows"

Sasha Tchekhovskoy, Northwestern University

Colloquium; Nov.09.2017 | Details »

Saturday Science Workshop

Space Place; Nov.11.2017 | Details »

"How to Make a Galaxy: The Role of Gas in Galaxy Evolution"

Prof. Jaqueline van Gorkom, Columbia University

Space Place; Nov.14.2017 | Details »

"CHILES, the COSMOS HI Large Extragalactic Survey"

Jacqueline VanGorkom, Columbia University

Colloquium; Nov.16.2017 | Details »

Party With the Stars

Space Place; Nov.17.2017 | Details »

Saturday Science Workshop

Space Place; Nov.18.2017 | Details »

Colloquium 11/30/2017—Laura Fissel

Laura Fissel, NRAO

Colloquium; Nov.30.2017 | Details »

Saturday Science Workshop

Space Place; Dec.02.2017 | Details »

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