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UC Berkeley Astrophysics Scholars Awarded NASA Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2025
The NHFP enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any area of NASA Astrophysics, using theory, observations, simulations, experimentation, or instrument development.
The highly competitive NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP)
...Read more about UC Berkeley Astrophysics Scholars Awarded NASA Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2025Nick Choksi has been awarded one of the 2025 51 Pegasi b Fellowships
The Heising-Simons Foundation’s Science program announced a new class of 51 Pegasi b Fellows, comprised of eight outstanding early career scientists focused on...Read more about Nick Choksi has been awarded one of the 2025 51 Pegasi b Fellowships
Prof. Alex Filippenko was interviewed by Dr. Brian Greene for the World Science Festival
In Dec. 2024, Prof. Alex Filippenko was interviewed by Dr. Brian Greene for the World Science Festival. They discussed the accelerating expansion of the Universe, dark energy, and especially the current "Hubble tension" -- the discrepancy...Read more about Prof. Alex Filippenko was interviewed by Dr. Brian Greene for the World Science Festival
Wenbin Lu will receive awards from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement in the first year of Scialog: Early Science with the LSST
Research Corporation for Science Advancement will make 21 separate awards of $60,000 in direct costs each to support the research of 20 scientists from colleges, universities, and research institutions in the United States...Read more about Wenbin Lu will receive awards from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement in the first year of Scialog: Early Science with the LSST
Astronomers thought they understood fast radio bursts. A recent one calls that into question.
A third outrigger radio array will go online this week at Hat Creek Observatory, a facility in Northern California formerly owned and operated by UC Berkeley and now managed by the SETI Institute in Mountain View. Together, the four arrays will immensely improve CHIME’s ability to precisely...Read more about Astronomers thought they understood fast radio bursts. A recent one calls that into question.
Raffaella Margutti Awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy’s gorgeous neighbor
It may be a “train wreck,” in the words of UC Berkeley astronomer Dan Weisz, but it’s a beautiful train wreck.
A mosaic image of the entire Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31, or M31), 2.5 million light years away but six times larger...Read more about The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy’s gorgeous neighbor
2024 TOP AWARD WINNER - Sanjana Curtis
Sanjana Curtis is an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on some of the most extreme phenomena in the universe, such as the explosive deaths of stars and mergers involving neutron stars and black holes. Many of the elements that make up...Read more about 2024 TOP AWARD WINNER - Sanjana Curtis
UC Berkeley Astronomy Major and Alumni Awarded 2024 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowship
The MacArthur Foundation announced the Class of 2024 MacArthur Fellows on Tuesday, October 1. MacArthur Fellowships, often called ‘genius grants,’ provide each recipient with an $800,000 stipend, a “no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an...Read more about UC Berkeley Astronomy Major and Alumni Awarded 2024 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowship
This rocky planet around a white dwarf resembles Earth — 8 billion years from now
The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate for our planet billions of years in the future, when the sun has turned into a white dwarf, and a blasted and frozen Earth has migrated beyond the orbit of Mars.
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Gibor Basri Honored with Walker Award
Gibor Basri, Professor Emeritus and former Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion at the University of California, Berkeley will receive the 2024 Arthur B.C. Walker II Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The Walker award recognizes outstanding achievement in astronomy and...Read more about Gibor Basri Honored with Walker Award
Berkeley professor helps interpret new images of Jupiter’s moon Io
University of California, Berkeley professor emerita Imke de Pater was part of a team that interpreted new images of Jupiter’s moon Io taken by the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) on Mount Graham in Arizona.Read more about Berkeley professor helps interpret new images of Jupiter’s moon Io
UC Berkeley will manage $300 million NASA mission to map the UV universe
An orbiting space telescope approved by NASA last month and scheduled for launch in 2030 will conduct the first all-sky survey of ultraviolet (UV) sources in the cosmos, providing valuable...Read more about UC Berkeley will manage 0 million NASA mission to map the UV universe
Webb telescope discovers intense jet stream in Jupiter’s atmosphere
University of California, Berkeley astronomers are part of a team that used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a fast-moving jet stream in Jupiter’s atmosphere.Read more about Webb telescope discovers intense jet stream in Jupiter’s atmosphere
Closest supernova in a decade reveals how exploding stars evolve
Several groups of University of California, Berkeley astronomers aimed telescopes at SN 2023ixf to capture data that advances our understanding of how exploding stars evolve.Read more about Closest supernova in a decade reveals how exploding stars evolve
Hundred-year storms? That’s how long they last on Saturn.
A new study conducted by astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, shows that Saturn has long-lasting megastorms with impacts deep in the atmosphere that persist for centuries.Read more about Hundred-year storms? That’s how long they last on Saturn.
James Webb Space Telescope sees Jupiter moons in a new light
University of California, Berkeley astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to reveal new details of Jupiter’s moon, Io.Read more about James Webb Space Telescope sees Jupiter moons in a new light
When ET calls, can we be sure we’re not being spoofed?
University of California, Berkeley scientists are part of a team that has devised a new technique for finding and vetting possible radio signals from other civilizations in our galaxy — a major advance in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) that will significantly boost...Read more about When ET calls, can we be sure we’re not being spoofed?
After 15 years, pulsar timing yields evidence of cosmic gravitational wave background
University of California, Berkeley Astronomy research groups lead by Professor Chung-Pei Ma and ...Read more about After 15 years, pulsar timing yields evidence of cosmic gravitational wave background
M87 in 3D: New view of galaxy helps pin down mass of the black hole at its core
A new, highly detailed analysis of the motion of stars in the giant elliptical galaxy M87 has been used to determine the mass of the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s center.Read more about M87 in 3D: New view of galaxy helps pin down mass of the black hole at its core
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