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UC Santa Cruz undergraduate Konstantin Batygin and Astronomy Professor Greg Laughlin find that Solar system could go haywire before the Sun dies [More]

UC Santa Cruz Astronomer Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz has an article published in this week's issue of Nature entitled "An infrared ring around the magnetar SGR 1900+14" [More]

UC Santa Cruz Astronomer Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz Work Featured in Science News [More]

Thirty-Meter Telescope focuses on two candidate sites [More]

Doug Lin has a featured article in the May 2008 Scientific American entitled "The Chaotic Genesis of Planets." Please visit http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-genesis-of-planets to learn more.

UC Santa Cruz Astronomer Claire Max elected to the National Academy of Sciences [More]

UCSC Galaxy Formation Work Featured in Science News [More]

Priya Kollipara awarded NSF Graduate Fellowship [More]

Nearby star should harbor detectable, Earth-like planets according to new study by UCSC Astronomers Javiera Guedes and Greg Laughlin [More]

UCSC Astronomer Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz finds that unusual supernovae may reveal intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters [More]

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation commits $200 million support for Thirty-Meter Telescope [More]

UCSC Astronomer Joseph Miller as Vice Provost for Silicon Valley Initiatives [More]

How to make the brightest supernova ever: explode, collapse, repeat [More]

A team of astronomers including UCSC's Steven Vogt recently revealed the discovery of a record-breaking fifth planet orbiting a star beyond our solar system. [More]

UCSC Astronomer Sandra Faber elected 2007 AAAS Fellow [More]

UC Santa Cruz Astronomers study tiny galaxy halfway across the universe [More]

The Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, together with the Astronomy & Astrophysics Department, UC Santa Cruz, invite applications for the Sophie and Tycho Brahe Postdoctoral Fellowship to begin in September 2008. [More]

The AEGIS Survey is being featured in Google Earth Gallery as Google's first dataset for illustrating its multiwavelength astronomical capabilities. X-ray, ultraviolet, and infrared images can be overlaid on top of a high-resolution Hubble mosaic image, with links to DEEP2/DEIMOS spectra and photometry. The Hubble image is the largest color image of the sky taken with Hubble, stretching four times the width of the full moon. [More]

Major gift supports crucial piece of Automated Planet Finder now being built at UCO Lick Observatory [More]

UC Santa Cruz Astronomy Graduate Student Kristen Howley Awarded LLNL Summer Internship [More]

Adriane Steinacker receives Excellence in Teaching award [More]

Alumnus Steven Hawley enters Astronaut Hall of Fame [More]

Sally Robinson 2007-2008 ARCS Foundation Scholarship Recipient [More]

UCSC astronomer Stanford Woosley to receive UCSC highest faculty honor [More]

Adaptive optics pinpoints two supermassive black holes in colliding galaxies [More]

NASA Develops Weather Map of a 'Hot Jupiter' Planet [More]

UCSC Astronomer Garth Illingworth testifies on Capitol Hill [More]

UCSC Astronomer Douglas Lin appointed director of Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics in China [More]

Planet hunter Michael Brown to speak at UC Santa Cruz on Thursday, May 24 [More]

Music and stargazing entice summer visitors to Mt. Hamilton's Lick Observatory [More]

UC Santa Cruz Astronomy Graduate Students Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships [More]

UC Santa Cruz students see stars, thanks to Orion Telescopes [More]

AEGIS survey reveals new principle governing galaxy formation and evolution [More]

UC Santa Cruz Astronomy graduate student Katie Morzinski wins Michelson Fellowship [More]

Massive stars die in the biggest explosions since the big bang. UCSC Astronomer Stan Woosley and colleagues are deciphering the stories of these doomed suns [More]

UC Santa Cruz Astronomer's web hunt for new worlds is on [More]

UC Santa Cruz Physics Department ranked first in nation for research impact [More]

Donald Osterbrock, eminent UC Santa Cruz Astronomer and former Director of Lick Observatory, dies at age 82 [More]

UC Santa Cruz Astronomer Jason Kalira and colleague find the most distant star clusters hidden behind a nearby cluster [More]

DOE awards support UC Santa Cruz Astronomer Piero Madau's research on dark matter and supernovae [More]

UC Santa Cruz Astronomer GuhaThakurta and colleagues discover an enormous halo of red giant stars around Andromeda [More]

Supercomputer study shows Milky Way's halo of dark matter in unprecedented detail
Researchers Jürg Diemand and Michael Kuhlen of the Astronomy Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have used NASA's most powerful supercomputer to run the largest simulation to date of the formation and evolution of the dark matter halo that envelops the Milky Way galaxy. [More]

UC Santa Cruz astronomer Joseph Miller receives Berkeley Medal and UC Citation of Excellence [More]

UC Santa Cruz Astronomy professor Michael Bolte brings distinguished academic and administrative record to critical post...[More]

University of Chicago awards honorary degree to Astronomer Sandra Faber [More]

Planet hunters wanted to help UC Santa Cruz astronomers in the search for new worlds [More]

Astronomers trace the evolution of the first galaxies in the universe
A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies around 13 billion years ago. These observations of the... [More]

Sally Robinson featured in Science Magazine
Sally Robinson's work on silicon and nickel enrichment in planet-host stars was featured in the Editor's Choice column of Science Magazine on June 2, 2006 (see "Silicon Seeding," p. 1279). Robinson, in collaboration with Greg Laughlin and Peter Bodenheimer of UCSC and Debra Fischer of SFSU, uncovered evidence that stars with giant planets tend to have more silicon and nickel than equally metal-rich stars without planets. This discovery is a direct consequence of the core-accretion theory of planet formation, of which Bodenheimer is one of the principal architects. Robinson was invited to give a talk about the planet-silicon correlation at Michelson Science Center on September 28, 2006.

UC Santa Cruz leads astrophysics research consortium
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UCSC appoints Bruce Margon as Vice Chancellor of Research
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Joel Primack of the UCSC Physics Department and his co-author Nancy Abrams were interviewed on NPR on August 24, 2006, concerning their new book on cosmology "View from the Center of the Universe." Their book was selected as one of the summer's Ten Best Reading Selections by NPR's "All Things Considered." [More]

Greg Laughlin was invited to write a feature article on planet formation for the August issue of the American Scientist.

Xavier Prochaska's work on the puzzling distribution of gamma-ray bursters (see "A Simple Survey Yields a Cosmic Conundrum") was featured in a news report in Science on Aug. 11, 2006.

Kirsten Howley awarded Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Fellowship [More]

A simple survey yields a cosmic conundrum
A survey of galaxies observed along the sightlines to quasars and gamma-ray bursts--both extremely luminous, distant objects--has revealed a puzzling inconsistency. Galaxies appear to be four times...
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An astronomer in space: Alumnus Steven Hawley reflects on his career at NASA
Every astronaut is impressed by the view of Earth from space. For NASA astronaut Steven Hawley, though, the view in the other direction was just as impressive [More]

George Blumenthal appointed Acting Chancellor
George Blumenthal, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz and former chair of UCSC's and UC's Academic Senate, has been named the campus's tenth chancellor. [More]