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Planetary scientist honored for his cosmic perspective

July 23, 2019

A CU Boulder planetary scientist is this year鈥檚 recipient of the Richard H. Emmons award for 鈥榚xtraordinary teaching鈥

Claire Lamman

Doubts (mostly) behind her, astronomy fan heads to Harvard听

May 8, 2019

Claire Lamman, the college鈥檚 spring 2019 outstanding graduate, turned out to be much better at science than she鈥檇 thought possible

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CU leads pack with 5 Brooke Owens fellows

Feb. 5, 2019

A record setting number of CU Boulder students have earned Brooke Owens Fellowships to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration.

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Scientists, educators honored for excellence in science education

Oct. 22, 2018

In both the classroom and the lab, the University of baby直播app Boulder is a great place to learn physics and other natural sciences, according to the American Physical Society.

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College names three new professors of distinction

Aug. 1, 2018

In recognition of their exceptional service, teaching and research, three members of the University of baby直播app Boulder baby直播app have been named 2018 Professors of Distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Researchers find last of universe's missing ordinary matter

June 22, 2018

Scientists have found what may be the universe鈥檚 lost sock at the back of the dryer鈥攁nswering a long-running mystery that astrophysicists have dubbed the 鈥渕issing baryon problem.鈥

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Collective gravity, not Planet Nine, may explain the orbits of 'detached objects'

June 4, 2018

Bumper car-like interactions at the edges of our solar system鈥攁nd not a mysterious ninth planet鈥攎ay explain the the dynamics of strange bodies called 鈥渄etached objects,鈥 according to a new study.

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Planet-hunting satellite launches to search for alien worlds

April 20, 2018

At 6:51 p.m. on April 18, a rocket carrying NASA鈥檚 latest space satellite, called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), blasted off from Cape Canaveral. CU Boulder Assistant Professor Zach Berta-Thompson was there. He called the experience 鈥渢errifying but incredible.鈥

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Black hole and stellar winds form giant butterfly and shut down star formation in galaxy

April 18, 2018

Researchers at CU Boulder have completed an unprecedented 鈥渄issection鈥 of twin galaxies in the final stages of merging.

Artist's Illustration of the Black Hole

Researchers catch supermassive black hole burping鈥攖wice

Jan. 11, 2018

Researchers have caught a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy snacking on gas and then "burping"鈥攏ot once, but twice.

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