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Grad Student Kara Green wins award at 2025 NSBP Conferece

Kara Green presented at the 2025 NSBP Conference in November and won the Beth Brown Award for Best Oral Presentation.

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“Super-Jupiter” Study Upends Science’s Understanding of Massive Planets

A new study, coauthored by University of Virginia astronomer Yifan Zhou, reveals extraordinary weather on a planet researchers are calling a “super-Jupiter,” challenging  assumptions that massive exoplanets resemble our own Solar System’s gas giants. 

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Dark Matter Radio Telescope on Pilot Project Podcast

Professor Brad Johnson talks to the Pilot Project Podcast about the new Dark Matter Radio Telescope.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged an extremely large and symmetric protostellar jet at the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. From tip to tip, this protostellar jet is 8 light-years across, about double the distance from our Sun to its closest neighboring star system, Alpha Centauri.
Massive Star Formation with the JWST

UVA Astronomers unlocking secrets of massive star formation.

Join Us for Public Nights at McCormick Observatory!

McCormick Observatory Public Night Program
Leander McCormick Observatory is open on the FIRST and THIRD Friday nights of every month (except holidays) year-round. 
Tickets are released one month in advance on the first business day of the month, around noon.