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 make a gift of any size to the Department of Astronomy and make an impact in the lives of current and future Gators! https://givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/astronomy-department-fund
With new tools like Webb telescope, Astronomy faculty, students peer into mysteries of the cosmos.
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 to begin August 16, 2024. We particularly encourage applicants who have experience in time domain astrophysics, which can be at any wavelength or timescale, and […]
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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 Miami, FL, August 17 – 19, 2023. Guerrero is a third-year PhD student working with Prof. Sarah Ballard studying the demographics of exoplanets and the architectures […]
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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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Francisco Reyes took this photo of comet NEOWISE on July 19, 2020 from RHO.
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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 Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award competition for undergraduate students at the virtual 236th AAS meeting. The Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards are given to recognize […]
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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 weeks experienced by unarmed Black people have deeply disturbed, angered and frightened many of us. We know that the disproportionate use of force and violence […]
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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 “integrated Standard Imager for Microsatellites” (iSIM). The iSIM camera concept was originally designed in our department to obtain very deep images of dark haloes in […]
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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.
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
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, and outreach, the representatives discussed ways that individual faculty members and institutions as a whole could better work together to serve our students and communities.
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