Telescopes and cosmos

From Edwin Hubble to the Giant Magellan Telescope Project, the University of Chicago has been at the forefront of advancements in telescope technology, leading to new and revolutionary cosmological discoveries.

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Wendy Freedman

Big Brains

The Expanding Universe with Wendy Freedman (Ep. 5)

May 14, 2018
Giant Magellan Telescope rendering at night

NSF grant accelerates development for one of the world’s most powerful telescopes

Bubbles and cracks image of the sun surface

New telescope reveals most detailed images of sun’s surface

Phoenix galaxy cluster

Astronomers use giant galaxy cluster as X-ray magnifying lens

Gemini Observatory

Nearly a decade in the making, exoplanet-hunting instrument installed in Hawaii

South Pole Telescope

Ambitious project to map the Big Bang’s afterglow earns NSF funding

Merging black holes

Lecture series to examine growing research on gravitational waves

Alex Eskin

UChicago mathematician, physicists win $3 million ‘Oscars of science’

Parker and Fox

Eugene Parker on first year of namesake NASA mission: ‘It’s pretty exciting stuff’

Kepler mission rendering

New exoplanet is smallest to be precisely measured

Red giants

New measure of Hubble constant adds to mystery about universe’s expansion rate