Meet the Multi-RAPTOR Team
The Center for Multi-messenger Research on AstroPhysical Transients and OutReach synthesizes the new multi-messenger data (gravitational waves, light, cosmic rays, and neutrinos) into a coherent picture of our Universe.
Basic Research Lights the Way
Prof. Chung-Pei Ma and colleagues in Math and Physical Sciences describe the fundamental role basic research plays in furthering our understanding of the universe and the world around us.
The Department of Astronomy offers undergraduate and graduate instruction in a wide variety of fields, including theoretical and observational astrophysics; infrared, optical, and radio astronomy; galactic structure and dynamics of stellar systems; high-energy astrophysics and cosmology; and spectroscopy. A considerable amount of research and teaching related to astronomy is done in other units at Berkeley, including the Space Science Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Physics and Earth & Planetary Science departments.
Astronomy at Berkeley means many things: studying from and directly collaborating with the best scientists in their fields; collecting and analyzing ground-breaking data; designing and operating pathfinding instruments; and using everything from pencil and paper to massively parallel supercomputers to understand cosmic phenomena from physical first principles. Studying Astronomy at Berkeley means discovering the world beyond our own in an internationally-ranked institution.