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UC Berkeley hosts Peter Gao on 51 Pegasi b Fellowship in Planetary Astronomy
January 25, 2017
Peter Gao combines his love of astronomy and Earth sciences to explore the behaviors of clouds and hazes that enshroud distant worlds.
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Fast radio burst tied to distant dwarf galaxy and, perhaps, magnetar
January 4, 2017
One of the rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves that have puzzled astronomers since they were first detected nearly 10 years ago has finally been tied to a source: an older dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light years from Earth.
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For the Good of Science
December 15, 2016
Nearly a dozen of the country's leading scholars in physics and astronomy visited the Heising-Simons Foundation to discuss academic and career pathways for women in these fields, and what could be done to help. View the slideshow by clicking here.
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Peering Back in Galactic Time
December 9, 2016
The astonishing beauty of galaxies visible from Earth has enchanted humanity ever since our ancestors first gazed into the twinkling night and wondrously beheld them. Some galaxies look like elegant whirling spirals or cosmic frisbees, while others look like elliptical blobs or lumpy irregular clumps smeared across the sky. The variety of galactic shapes prompts questions as old as astronomy: why do galaxies form these characteristic shapes? Can elliptical galaxies become spirals, or vice versa?
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Breakthrough Listen and Tabby’s Star
October 27, 2016
UC Berkeley's Breakthrough Listen project to spend several exciting nights observing Tabby's star from the Green Bank Telescope, located in West Virginia.
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Tracking of Eruptions on Juptier’s moon Io
October 21, 2016
Long-term, hi-res tracking of eruptions on Juptier's moon Io.
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HERA project receives nearly $10 million in funding from NSF
September 15, 2016
An experiment, lead by Astronomy's Professor Aaron Parsons, to explore the aftermath of cosmic dawn, when stars and galaxies first lit up the universe, has received nearly $10 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to expand its detector array in South Africa.
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Recent Faculty Discoveries Include Learning What’s Under Jupiter’s Clouds and the Most Precise Measurement of Universal Expansion to Date
June 6, 2016
Professors Imke de Pater and Alex Filippenko have each released information pertaining to findings regarding their respective research last Friday.
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Department Climate Update
February 10, 2016
A message from the Chair.
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Galaxy hunter Hyron Spinrad dies at 81
January 4, 2016
Remembering Galactic researcher, Berkeley alumni, and Department of Astronomy Professor Emeritus Dr. Hyron "Hy" Spinrad.
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