Astronomers map Milky Way by light of exploding star

Astronomers, like professor Sebastian Heinz, take advantage of once-in-a-lifetime exploding star to map the structure of the Milky Way.

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Elena D'Onghia in Spectrum News: Protecting astronauts from cosmic radiation

Professor of astronomy discusses CREW HaT, a series of coils her team of researchers are working on that uses magnetic fields to deflect radioactive particles away from space stations and the astronauts inside them.

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Scientists, undergraduates team up to protect astronauts from radiation

Professor of astronomy Elena D'Onghia is part of a team working to refine CREW HaT, a series of coils that realigns magnetic fields in space, diverting harmful radiation.

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Massive bubbles at center of Milky Way caused by supermassive black hole

Research by Ellen Zweibel, a professor of astronomy and physics, sheds new light on what's happening at the center of our galaxy.

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Fourteen L&S graduate students have been honored as recipients of the 2021 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant (TA) Awards.

UW–Madison employs over 2,100 teaching assistants (TAs) across its 200-plus undergraduate major and certificate programs. Whether teaching in lecture halls, classrooms, and labs on campus or leading learning opportunities in the wider community, their work is vital to fulfilling the university’s educational mission and the Wisconsin Idea.

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UW-built spectrograph en route to South Africa

Staff in UW–Madison’s Washburn Astronomical Laboratories custom built a near-infrared spectrograph to ship to and install at the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), where astronomers will use it to learn more about galaxies and the types of stars they contain.

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Galactic tracker

The Department of Astronomy’s newest astronomer, Michael Maseda, tracks galaxies’ “growth spurts” using the new James Webb Space Telescope.

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The chemistry of space

Professor Susanna Widicus Weaver research explores the formation of prebiotic molecules during star and planet-formation.

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Revealing new mysteries in galaxy formation

Computer sciences major, Sherry Wong uses her skills to study Astronomy by creating computer simulations to understand how galaxies form and evolve over millions of years.

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