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AXIS and PRIMA

Two UMD Astronomy Space Probes Advance to Next Round of $1 Billion NASA Mission Selection

03 Oct 24

Aneesh Anandanatarajan

Curious About the Cosmos

12 Sep 24

Two From UMD Awarded 2024 NASA Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships

08 Apr 24

The entire sky in gamma rays with magenta circles illustrating the uncertainty in the direction from which more high-energy gamma rays than average seem to be arriving

NASA’s Fermi Detects Surprise Gamma-Ray Feature Beyond Our Galaxy

12 Jan 24

Christopher Reynolds

Black Hole Expert Christopher Reynolds Rejoins UMD’s Department of Astronomy

24 Jul 23

An artist's rendering of an array of pulsars affected by gravitational ripples produced by a black hole

Scientists Find First Evidence of Gravitational Waves at Extremely Low Frequencies

28 Jun 23

A view from Hubble Space Telescope shows a dazzling display of lights in the sky, including the afterglow of GRB 221009A

New Study Finds Unique Structure of the ‘BOAT’—Brightest Gamma-ray Burst of All Time

07 Jun 23

Delina Levine

Rehearsals, Recitals and Research

03 Mar 23

Astronauts imaged the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory during its deployment from space shuttle Atlantis in April 1991.

NASA’s Retired Compton Mission Reveals Superheavy Neutron Stars

09 Jan 23

Tidal Disruption Event (TDE)

Rare Sighting of Luminous Jet Spewed by Supermassive Black Hole

28 Nov 22

A wide view of an extremely red quasar

James Webb Space Telescope Uncovers Massive Galaxy Cluster Surrounding a Powerful Red Quasar

20 Oct 22

Short GRB

UMD Scientists Help Uncover Origins of Castaway Gamma-ray Bursts

26 Jul 22

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