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Press and Media Coverage

Cutting-edge research by UC Santa Cruz astrophysicists is routinely featured in the media. Here are recent examples of our work that you can download.

Articles by and About UC Santa Cruz Astronomers

An Infrared Ring Around the Magnetar SGR 190014, Nature, May 2008, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Clumps and Streams in the Local Dark Matter Distribution, Nature, August 2008, Piero Madau

The Genesis of Planets, Scientific America, May 2008, Douglas Lin

A Minimum Column Density of 1 g cm22 for Massive Star Formation, Nature, February 2008, Mark Krumholz

Homing in on Black Holes , Smithsonian, April 2008, Robert Irion

The Cataclysmic Death of Stars, National Geographic, March 2007, Stan Woosley

Nearest Stars's Wobbles Could Reveal Earth's Twin (Greg Laughlin and Javiera Guedes), New Scientist.Com News Service, February 2008, S. Battersby

How White Dwarfs Get their Kicks (Jason Kalirai), HubbleSite, December 2007

Tidal Stream Research Highlights, (Karrie Gilbert), Nature, October 2007

Extrasolar Planets, The One that Got Away, Nature, September 2007, Jonathan Fortney

Red Giant Sun May Not Destroy Earth (Jonathan Fortney), National Geographic, September 2007, A. Minard

A Map of the Day-Night Contrast of the Extrasolar Planet HD 1897336, May 2007, Jonathan Fortney

Studies of Light and Shadow, Spotlighting Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation (Kai Noeske), Science News Online, February 2007, R. Cowen

Vast Halo Extends Galaxy's Size (Raja GuhaThakurta and Jason Kalirai), BBC News Online, January 2007, P. Rincon

Andromeda Galaxy Takes up More Space (Raja GuhaThakurta and Karrie Gilbert), Space.com - MSNBC.com, January 2007, K. Than

Evidence of Ancient Galactic Collision Found (Karrie Gilbert), Science Daily, January 2007

Study: Andromeda Way Bigger than Thought (Karrie Gilbert), CNN.com, January 2007, K. Than

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