Columbia University Department of Astronomy

Astro News:

New Documentary on Underrepresented Minorities in Astronomy Features Prof. Marcel Agüeros

November 4, 2019Full Spectrum, by Bryan Méndez, is available now!
Metzger Named Blavatnik National Awards Finalist

May 30, 2019Professor Brian Metzger has been named a Finalist in the 2019 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.
Former Astrophysics Major wins Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans

April 11, 2019Shreyas award
Two Astronomy Faculty Awarded 2019 Sloan Fellowships

February 19, 20192019 Sloan Fellowships
Metzger Awarded Rossi Prize

February 12, 2019Brian Metzger Awarded Top High Energy Astrophysics Prize
Barnes Awarded HEAD Dissertation Prize

February 12, 2019Jennifer Barnes Awarded HEAD Dissertation Prize
First Cohort of Summer Research Undergraduates Returns from Santiago Triumphant

October 27, 2018Our undergraduates are awesome!
Brian Metzger wins New Horizons Breakthrough Prize

October 18, 2018Brian Metzger Wins New Horizons Breakthrough Prize
Jose Zorrilla wins cosmology prize

September 11, 2018Jose Manuel Zorrilla Matilla was recognized for his research in cosmology by the Price Prize.
Celebrating our new PhD's!

September 10, 2018 Congratulations to all our students who passed their PhD thesis defenses during Spring/Summer 2018
What would the Magellanic Clouds have evolved into, were they far from the Milky Way?

July 11, 2018New Study Sheds light on collisions between low mass galaxies
Prof Brian Metzger named Blavatnik National Award Finalist

May 31, 2018Prof Brian Metzger named Blavatnik National Award Finalist
Prof David Kipping named Sloan Research Fellow

April 5, 2018Assistant Professor of Astronomy David Kipping has been named a recipient of the prestigious 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship.
Columbia Astronomy Students Awarded Fellowships from the National Science Foundation

April 5, 20182 undergraduate students and 2 graduate students in our department have been awarded fellowships from the National Science Foundation.
Emily Sandford, Stellar Center Student

April 4, 2018Emily Sandford's CUPUC experience highlighted by Global Centers
Drama Around the Galaxy

February 27, 2018An international team of astronomers combine disparate lines of evidence to piece together a dramatic revision to our understanding of the recent history of our home galaxy - the Milky Way. An arti
Graduate student Sarah Pearson wins Women in Physics honorary award

November 27, 2017Graduate student Sarah Pearson wins this year's Women in Physics honorary award from the Danish Network for Women in Physics.
Columbia students honored by the Astronomical Society of New York

September 2, 2017Columbia student honored by the Astronomical Society of New York
Welcome to our new graduate students

September 2, 2017new graduate students
The Milky Way's Galactic Bar Punches Holes in Stellar Streams

September 1, 2017Columbia Astronomy graduate student, Sarah Pearson, publishes paper in Nature Astronomy with co-authors Dr. Adrian Price-Whelan and Prof. Kathryn V. Johnston.

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