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Image caption: Profs. Nitya Kallivayalil and William Wylie of the University of Virginia in front of their exhibition “Firmament”, now showing at Contemplative Science Commons in Charlottesville. Photo credit: Evan Kutsko

October 9, 2026

Firmament: New Exhibition Blends Art and Astrophysics Using 19th-Century Cyanotype and Modern Star Plates

Jonathan C. Tan, professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia, at the ALMA telescope in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Tan studies how stars form and evolve, including the formation of massive binary star systems. His research on a young binary system used observations collected over nearly eight years.

October 6, 2026

Astronomers Catch Two Massive Stars Forming a Binary Pair

This infrared image taken by NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows a star-forming cloud teeming with gas, dust and massive newborn stars.

October 1, 2026

UVA Astronomers Contributing to NASA's Plans for New Mission

APOGEE_conference_photo_credit_Matthias_Steinmetz_and_Susan_Patterson

September 28, 2026

APOGEE Community Reunites in Spain to Celebrate 15 Years of Discovery

NASA Goddard

September 18, 2026

Big mysteries explained through your senses

Astronomer Mojgan Aghakhanloo, a VITA-Origins Fellow at UVA

September 8, 2026

Astronomers Solve the Mystery of ‘The Supernova Impostor’

Beta Pictoris b, a young super-Jupiter, has a dusty atmosphere marked by varying atmospheric conditions. This artist's concept also shows the system's debris disk and the James Webb Space Telescope in the distance.

August 12, 2026

One Day on a Distant Planet Offers Clues to Its Origins

Anna Dignan’s astronomy class explores the possibility of life on exoplanets -- planets outside our own solar system. (Photo by Lathan Goumas, University Communications)

July 14, 2026

Summer course explores ‘alien worlds’

Today’s interviewee is Amina Diop, a fifth-year doctoral student at the University of Virginia.

June 16, 2026

Black Space Week 2026: Interview with Amina Diop

InterconnectedCosmos_Hero Illustration by Avery Wagner

June 8, 2026

Breaking Down Disciplinary Boundaries in Astronomy: Inside UVA’s Interconnected Cosmos Initiative

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