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June 23, 2015
Visualizing the cosmos: UW astronomer Andrew Connolly and the promise of big data
![UW astronomy professor Andrew Connolly at TED2014 at the Vancouver, B.C., convention center.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2015/06/04170538/ted2014_dd_dsc_7324_1920-150x150.jpg)
A conversation with UW astronomer Andrew Connolly on the coming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the promise of big data to the study of the universe.
April 21, 2014
‘Upside-down planet’ reveals new method for studying binary star systems
![An image of the Sun used to simulate what the sun-like star in a self-lensing binary star system might look like in a self-lensing binary star system.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/04/04183656/koi3278_cover16-150x150.jpg)
What looked at first like a sort of upside-down planet has instead revealed a new method for studying binary star systems, discovered by a UW student astronomer.