This RSS news feed maintained by uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information, includes the last 20 UW news releases about Astronomy. http://uwnews.org/apps/uwnews/public/rss.aspx?q=uwnByAuthorId&departmentID=74&numToShow=20 http://uwnews.org/images/uwnewslogo_small.jpg http://uwnews.org/ uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information (c)2010 University of Washington News and Information | http://uwnews.org | uwnews@u.washington.edu | 206-543-2580 Bob Roseth | roseth@u.washington.edu Ken Fine | kenfine@u.washington.edu Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:05:26 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ New research solves nagging issues in the theory of how cold dark matter let the universe evolve into the galaxy-rich cosmos we see today. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54791 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54791 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:00:00 GMT When scientists confirmed in October that they had detected the first rocky planet outside our solar system, it advanced the longtime quest to find an Earth-like planet hospitable to life. The rocky planet CoRoT-7 b is, however, a forbidding place. If its orbit is not almost perfectly circular, then the planet might be undergoing continuous, fierce volcanic eruptions, according to information presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54644 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54644 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:15:12 GMT A likely comet collision on Jupiter last week caused a minor sensation, but new research shows that similar impacts on Earth are most likely not responsible for any of the planet's mass extinctions. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51186 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51186 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:00:00 GMT New calculations indicate that, in nearby star systems, tidal forces exerted on planets by their parent star's gravity could limit what is regarded as a star's habitable zone and change the criteria for planets where life could potentially take root. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50350 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50350 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:32:35 GMT A team of astronomers and astrobiologists has devised a technique to tell whether small Earth-like planets orbiting other suns harbor liquid water, which in turn could tell whether they might be able to support life. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49976 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49976 Tue, 26 May 2009 11:00:00 GMT The space shuttle Atlantis, leaving Monday for the Hubble Space Telescope, will be piloted by UW engineering graduate Gregory C. Johnson. The shuttle will carry a camera that UW astronomers helped build, which will replace Hubble's existing camera. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49455 Science Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) and Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49455 Wed, 06 May 2009 16:45:00 GMT Astronomers have found hundreds of extrasolar planets in the last two decades, and new research indicates they might have found even more except for one thing - some planets have fallen into their stars and simply no longer exist. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49159 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49159 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:56:37 GMT The University of Washington will apply cloud computing to analyze climate simulation results and astronomical images. The new grants are part of a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Google and IBM that brings cloud computing to U.S. universities. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48747 Science Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48747 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:05:07 GMT As the International Year of Astronomy dawns, a UW professor recounts the achievements of the renowned Hubble Space Telescope as it prepares for its final chapter. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46088 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46088 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:54:43 GMT New simulations challenge a long-held belief, indicating that in galaxies similar to the Milky Way stars such as our sun can migrate great distances. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43593 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43593 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:45:00 GMT A new mineral, the first to be discovered inside a particle from a comet, has officially been named in honor of UW astronomy professor Donald Brownlee. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42455 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42455 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:22:24 GMT Five University of Washington undergraduates combing images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have discovered more than 1,300 asteroids that had never been observed previously. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37120 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37120 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:07:34 GMT Andrew Connolly, who recently arrived at the University of Washington as an associate professor of astronomy, spent the last year as technical lead for the development of Sky in Google Earth. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36238 Science Technology Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36238 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:12:46 GMT UW students will show off their research at the 10th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on May 18 http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32838 Campus Catherine O'Donnell (cath2@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32838 Wed, 09 May 2007 19:26:30 GMT New measurements for three planets outside our solar system indicate their temperatures remain fairly constant -- and blazing hot -- from day to night, even though it is likely one side of each planet always faces its sun and the other is in permanent darkness. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29397 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29397 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers believe it is possible to detect gravitational waves coming from strange wispy structures called cosmic superstrings. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29374 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29374 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT Astronomers have found evidence of a supermassive black hole at the heart of a dwarf elliptical galaxy about 54 million light years away from the Milky Way Galaxy where Earth resides. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29275 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29275 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT Evidence from Stardust mission shows there was enough mixing in the early solar system to transport material from the sun's sizzling neighborhood and deposit it in icy deep-space comets. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28836 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28836 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT For the first time a UW scientist has been granted the largest share of observation time on the Hubble Space Telescope for an entire year. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27221 Science Technology Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27221 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT Researchers running computer simulations for four nearby systems that contain giant planets about the size of Jupiter have found one that could have formed an Earth-like planet with the right conditions to support life. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25748 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25748 Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:00:00 GMT Scientists analyzing recent samples of comet dust have discovered minerals that formed near the sun or other stars, far from where comets formed. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23093 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23093 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:00:00 GMT The Stardust comet sample return canister is opened in Houston, revealing evidence that the mission is "a phenomenal success" http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21947 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21947 Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT Stardust parachutes safely into a Utah desert, capping a historic NASA mission to a comet led by a University of Washington professor. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21858 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21858 Sun, 15 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT The UW-led mission to capture particles from comet Wild 2 is to return to Earth on Jan. 15. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21550 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21550 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT A new model offers plausible scenarios for how oxygen came to dominate Earth's atmosphere 2.4 billion years ago, and why it took at least 300 million years after bacterial photosynthesis started producing oxygen in large quantities. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11549 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11549 Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:00:00 GMT An international team of researchers using data from powerful computer models and observations from the Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of dark energy right in our own cosmic neighborhood. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8972 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8972 Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:00:00 GMT Scientists expected the Stardust spacecraft to send back pictures of comet Wild 2 showing a chunk of rock and ice coated with dust, obscuring any interesting features. Instead, they got images filled with sharply defined mesas, craters, pinnacles and canyons. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4744 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4744 Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:00:00 GMT Woodruff Sullivan, a University of Washington astronomy professor, is teaming up with television personality Bill Nye, "the science guy," and The Planetary Society on EarthDial, a project to get schools, community organizations and individuals around the world to build their own sundials and display them on the Internet using 24-hour webcams. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3434 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3434 Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:00:00 GMT