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Pioneering radio astronomer Harold Weaver dies at age 99
May 3, 2017
Harold Francis Weaver, a pioneer of radio astronomy who discovered the first microwave laser, or maser, in space, passed away peacefully in his Kensington, California, home on April 26 at the age of 99.
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Astronomy Crowdfunding Soft Launch Starts Now!
March 28, 2017
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk on the surface of Pluto, or fly by the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy? A group of scientists in the Department of Astronomy would like to help you find out!
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$5.8 million grant helps expand radio telescope to study ‘cosmic dawn’
March 6, 2017
A radio telescope array being built in South Africa to explore the period after stars first formed in the early universe has received $5.8 million in new funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
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Two postdocs receive fellowships to study exoplanets
January 31, 2017
An incoming postdoc and a departing Ph.D. are among four new 51 Pegasi b Fellows announced this week by the Heising-Simons Foundation.
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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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