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Meet the World’s Biggest Telescope

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The view from the remote, barren Andes Mountains in northern Chile stretches for miles, over waves of bare, dun-colored peaks rolling to each horizon. More importantly,...

 
 

From Marfa to Mauritania: The Rise of the McDonald Observatory

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Four hundred and fifty miles west of The University of Texas at Austin, thirty-seven miles (as the car drives) north of Marfa, and almost 6,800 feet above sea level...

 
 

UT’s McDonald Observatory Key in Discovery of ‘Goldilocks’ Planet

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The news about the existence of a possibly habitable earth-like planet blew up yesterday, after being announced at a NASA conference in Moffett Field, Calif. The...

 
 

UT Scientists Discover Largest Black Holes In Universe

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It’s something straight out of a science-fiction movie: two monster black holes, weighing as much as 10 billion suns, that threaten to swallow everything within...

 
 

UT Partners On World’s Largest Telescope

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UT is often on the forefront of innovation in the astronomy field. But one project—the Giant Magellan Telescope—is changing not only the world, but also galaxies...

 
 
UT-Trained Scientist Works As ‘Celestial Sleuth’

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UT-Trained Scientist Works As ‘Celestial Sleuth’

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Don Olson’s office is tucked deep into a corner of the physics department at Texas State University. But don’t call him an astrophysicist. “Celestial sleuth...

 
 
 
 
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