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
3-d illustration of a rocky planet with veins of magma

Scientists confirm third-nearest star with a planet—and it’s rocky like Earth

Telescope image focused on a red star

Aging stars provide a new cosmological yardstick

image of zoom session of class with undergrads, TA and professor

UChicago undergrads discover bright lensed galaxy in the early universe

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’