Science News
Giant Planet Orbiting Close to White Dwarf
Thanks to a bevy of telescopes in space and on Earth — and even a pair of amateur astronomers in Arizona — a University of Wisconsin–Madison astronomer and his colleagues have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting at… Continue Reading »
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Wisconsin Astronomy on the Cover of Nature
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. They are surrounded by a high-velocity gaseous structure called the Magellanic Stream, which consists of gas stripped from both clouds. So far,… Continue Reading »
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Fermi Bubbles
Astronomers used the WHAM telescope to measure huge outflows of gas extending from the Milky Way’s center known as the Fermi Bubbles. They were able to measure the velocity, density and pressure of the gas for the first time,… Continue Reading »
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WiCOR
We are creating the Wisconsin Center for Origins Research positioning UW-Madison to be at the forefront of the study of life's origins across our Galaxy. Continue Reading »
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NEID First Light
The NEID spectrograph on WIYN has seen first light! Comprised of an ultra-high precision spectrograph and the Wisconsin-built port adapter, NEID will measure the masses of planets detected by NASA's TESS mission. Continue Reading »
Adopt a Fiber
Help Us Put Salt on a High Fiber Diet
Our Washburn Labs Team devised an ingenious way to turn SALT's Robert Stobie Multi-Object Spectrograph into an Integral Field Spectrograph. Help us reach our fund-raising goal by adopting one of 44 remaining fibers! Continue Reading »
