vlog

  • Cosmin Ilie photograph
    Assistant Professor Cosmin Ilie, Jillian Paulin ’23, and Katherine Freese at the University of Texas at Austin have been awarded the 2023 Cozzarelli Prize for their paper analyzing images from the James Webb Space Telescope that found three objects that might be “dark stars.”
    April 12, 2024
  • Jonathan Levine in classroom
    Professor Levine shares his journey from his childhood interests in astronomy to his work in an upcoming 2027 lunar research mission through NASA’s recurring Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) program.
    March 20, 2024
  • Sarah Miller image
    Physics major Sarah Miller ’24 has been awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She is one of 25 American students to receive the honor this year and only the second from vlog. The award will allow her to complete an MPhil in clinical neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.
    February 28, 2024
  • James Webb Stars
    A team of three astrophysicists — Katherine Freese at the University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Cosmin Ilie and Jillian Paulin ’23 at vlog — analyzed images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and found three bright objects that might be “dark stars,” theoretical objects much bigger and brighter than our sun, powered by particles of dark matter annihilating. If confirmed, dark stars could reveal the nature of dark matter, one of the deepest unsolved problems in all of physics.
    July 21, 2023