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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,...

 
 

A Storied Summit at the McDonald Observatory, 75 Years Later

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Sandra Preston, BBA ’79, has spent 35 years building the education and outreach programs for the McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas at Austin where...

 
 
UT Chips in for World's Largest Telescope

UT Chips in for World’s Largest Telescope

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The University of Texas is fairly familiar with the final frontier. UT-Austin has produced 12 astronauts, has its own Center for Space Research, and is represented...

 
 

McDonald Observatory: 75 Years of Studying the Stars

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When banker William Johnson McDonald died in 1926, he left nearly $1 million to the The University of Texas at Austin in his estate, and for a very particular purpose:...

 
 

UT Astronomers Discover Most Massive Black Hole Yet

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Astronomers out of UT’s McDonald Observatory have done it again. They’ve discovered the largest known black hole in the universe—for the third time. Using...

 
 

Have UT Astronomers Helped Find a Real Tatooine?

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Texas astronomers have helped discover the first multi-planet solar system orbiting around a binary star—the kind of place Luke Skywalker could call home. The...

 
 

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 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...

 
 
West Texas Fires Narrowly Miss McDonald Observatory

West Texas Fires Narrowly Miss McDonald Observatory

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A massive and fast-moving wildfire in West Texas has narrowly missed the University’s McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis. (more…)

 
 
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