UF Astronomy

UF Remote Public Observing will resume in September.

RHO Public Night Update: Weather is cloudy, but we will still be on zoom (link below) at 8:30 if you would like to see the telescope or have any astronomy questions. ufl.zoom.us/j/96308199151

Ready for one more observing night? Come see the most wonderful astronomical objects with us, from the comfort of your home! Happening on the first Friday of each month. Next one is coming up tomorrow, July 7th, 8:30 to 10 pm (please check twitter after 7 pm to confirm).

Remote Public Observing is cancelled tonight due to cloud cover from Tropical Storm Arlene. Join us next month (July 7).

Zoom link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/96308199151

Come see the most wonderful astronomical objects with us, from the comfort of your home! UFastro will hold remote public observing nights on the first Friday of each month. Next one is coming up on June 2nd, 8:30 to 10 pm (please check twitter after 7 pm to confirm).

We are cancelling the remote public observing session for tonight due to weather, but will still give a brief tour of the inside of the dome at Rosemary Hill Observatory from 8:30-8:50.

Wondered how astronomers take images of the sky with telescopes? Now you can participate from the comfort of your home. UFastro will hold a remote public observing night on May 5, 8:30 to 10 pm, depending on the weather. Come see the most wonderful astronomical objects with us!

Three researchers from @UFastro and @UFGeology have been selected as @RCSA1 fellows!🥳 They will be lending their expertise to the "Signatures of Life in the Universe" initiative, collaborating on high-risk discovery research on extraterrestrial life. news.clas.ufl.edu/clas-researche…

Today is UF's annual Gator Nation Giving Day! We call upon Gators everywhere to stand up for UF by making a gift of any size. The Department of Astronomy made a video to show what we are grateful for: youtu.be/1Bu65Aj0nf0 Please visit givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/astr… #AllForTheGators

The Astrophysics & Astronomy Society (AAS) -- an educational & social club organized by UFastro’s undergrads -- held their 1st General Body Meeting, Movie & Trivia Night of the semester. Undergrads discussed how they'll get involved w/ UFastro this year. New members are welcome!

#BlackInPhysics Week 2022 will be on Oct 23-28th, and @UFastro's grad student Marika Edwards is involved as the project's Social Events Lead Organizer. This virtual event will celebrate Black Physicists and their contributions to the scientific community. blackinphysics.org

We spy a few of our 'stellar' researchers from @ufphysics and @UFastro making Carl Sagan proud.🌟

The @NASAWebb telescope is poised to answer the big questions about our universe, and @UF scientists are on the vanguard of these discoveries. Read about six projects pushing the bounds of our knowledge about the cosmos. news.ufl.edu/2022/08/james-…

Chance et al. 2022(B?) (arxiv.org/abs/2208.05989) is out and it's been a long time coming! We think the radius distribution of small planets is very likely sculpted by atmosphere loss- what if that atmosphere loss was dominated by erosion from giant impacts? #paperday 1/N

New paper: Scientists have detected gas in a circumplanetary disk around an exoplanet in the constellation Ophiuchus, which challenges current assumptions about planetary formation. A 🧵 (1/7) bit.ly/3zLlSpO

spt smg = best astro collab in the world. Jared got to show us extremely exciting first images from JWST this morning - couldn’t ask for a better way to close out a great week of science. Special thanks to @FlatironCCA for hosting us!

Grad students Sidney Lower and Jared Cathey flew to New York this week to attend the South Pole Telescope Sub-Millimeter Galaxies meeting. First picture shows Jared talking about JWST NIRCam data; second shows the two of them on the rooftop of the Flatiron Institute.

One more @NSF REU summer program concluded at UF Astro. We couldn't be happier to host students from many different states, for the first time in person. We are very proud of their research work, and their amazing final presentations.