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The 'astronomy' program at UT Is heavily partnered with the physics department. Astronomy is decently small, so not many students are accepted, which causes it to be decently prestigious. Also, the heavy partnership with the physics department, really makes most of the projects at UT's Astronomy department are exclusively astrophysics and spectroscopy problems. However, UT has a strong partnership with McDonald observatory, so some of the best observational data you can get, can be gotten within the department.

TL;DR Astronomy == Astrophysics, hard to get accepted, lots of groundbreaking research and unique coursework