Impact of Giving Day on UF Astronomy
Giving Day is here and I am proud that UF Astronomy is a featured fund for the second year in a row! I invite our incredible community of supporters to […]
Stars in Astronomy visible right here on campus
With new tools like Webb telescope, Astronomy faculty, students peer into mysteries of the cosmos.
The Department of Astronomy is hiring two new faculty
Assistant Professor in Time-Domain Astronomy The Department of Astronomy at the University of Florida invites applications for a full- time, nine-month tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor […]
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Natalia Guerrero Accepted For 2023 Culturally Inclusive Planetary Engagement Workshop
Natalia Guerrero was accepted to attend the 2023 Culturally Inclusive Planetary Engagement professional development workshop hosted by the USRA Lunar and Planetary Institute Planetary ReaCH team at the Perez Art Museum in […]
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Astronomer Paul Sell’s observations of lopsided galaxy featured by NASA
UF Astronomer Paul Sell’s data have been featured in a NASA/ESA press release: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2021/news-2021-029 See what CLAS had to say about it here: https://news.clas.ufl.edu/what-is-deforming-this-spiral-galaxy/
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Comet NEOWISE seen from Rosemary Hill Observatory
Francisco Reyes took this photo of comet NEOWISE on July 19, 2020 from RHO.
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UF Undergrad Francisco Mendez wins the AAS Chambliss Award
CONGRATULATIONS to Francisco Mendez for being awarded the Chambliss Medal from the American Astronomical Society for his poster presentation. He was one of only three undergraduate students awardees in the […]
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Black Lives Matter: A statement from our department
The UF Astronomy Department would like to add our voice to the recent message from UF President Fuchs in condemning racism, injustice, and hate. The deadly violence in the last […]
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Integrated Standard Imager for Microsatellites (iSIM) on the International Space Station
For the last few years, the UF Department of Astronomy has worked with the UF spinoff company Satlantis to develop a state-of-the-art space camera for scientific and commercial applications: the […]
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Undergraduate Research – Francisco Mendez
Undergraduate researcher Francisco Mendez is presenting his work on Detecting Stellar Magnetic Cycles and Rotation Period Using UF’s Dharma Planet Survey at the Center for Undergraduate Research Virtual Symposium.
Spring 2020 Open House canceled
The Campus Teaching Observatory open houses are canceled until at least the end of June. Please check back in June. The event schedule can be found here: https://ww3.astro.ufl.edu/publicsched.html
UF Hosts Statewide Astronomy Collaboration Meeting
The University of Florida Department of Astronomy hosted a collaborative meeting including representatives from universities from across the state of Florida. With an overarching goal of promoting astronomy research, education, […]
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