The international partner, India, is still active in the TMT project
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/new-facility-part-of-tmt-opens-near-bengaluru/articleshow/80007583.cms
Astronomers Capture a Direct Image of a Brown Dwarf
Astronomers Capture a Direct Image of a Brown Dwarf
Researchers debut superfast exoplanet camera
https://phys.org/news/2020-11-debut-superfast-exoplanet-camera.html
UC Santa Cruz leads interdisciplinary consortium for astrobiology research
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/11/astrobiology-consortium.html
A brief history of Jupiter’s Galilean moons, and how to observe them
Given we don’t fully understand the chemical make-up of Europa’s ice cover yet, just what these processes would look like isn’t clear, and neither the Keck Observatory in Hawaii nor the Hubble Space Telescope have recorded this hypothetical glow occurring before now.
The Ice on Jupiter’s Moon Europa Could Be Literally Glowing in The Dark, Study Hints
https://www.sciencealert.com/jupiter-s-moon-europa-may-actually-glow-in-the-dark-scientists-suggest
PEAS is on its way to begin testing at Lick Observatory
The Planet as Exoplanet Analog Spectrograph (PEAS), is led by Emily Martin, a UCSC Postdoctoral Fellow as well as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. Martin developed the novel instrument, which takes the light from a planet such as Jupiter and effectively turns it into a point source for spectroscopic analysis. This method will help […]
Andrea Ghez Awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for Supermassive Black Hole Discovery
Andrea Ghez (Caltech MS ’89, PhD ’92), the Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics at UCLA, has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering research that helped reveal a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. She shares half the Nobel Prize with Reinhard Genzel of UC Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. Together, Ghez and Genzel are being honored “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.”
Anemic star cluster breaks metal-poor record
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/10/globular-cluster.html
The Habitable Zone Planet Finder
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/newly-discovered-exoplanet-is-close-to-earth
Astrophysicist Jonathan Fortney awarded 2020 Farinella Prize
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/09/fortney-farinella-prize.html
New observations of black hole devouring a star reveal rapid disk formation
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/08/accretion-disk.html
A California Wildfire Nearly Destroyed the Historic Lick Observatory
https://www.wired.com/story/california-wildfire-historic-lick-observatory/
UC’s Lick Observatory threatened by fire
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/08/mt-hamilton-fire.html
Calcium-rich supernova examined with x-rays for first time
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/08/calcium-supernova.html
Astrophysics graduate student Diana Powell wins 2020 Ford Fellowship
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/07/diana-powell.html
How galaxies die: New insights into the quenching of star formation
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/07/galaxy-quenching.html
White dwarfs reveal new insights into the origin of carbon in the universe
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/07/white-dwarfs.html
Beacon from the Early Universe
https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2020/019952/beacon-early-universe
Universe’s ‘missing matter’ finally found in the space between galaxies
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/05/missing-matter.html#:~:text=Macquart%20said%20the%20missing%20matter,very%20sparse%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20said.&text=The%20missing%20matter%20in%20this,elements%20in%20planets%20and%20stars.
Powerful new AI technique detects and classifies galaxies in astronomy image data
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/05/morpheus.html
E. Margaret Burbidge (1919–2020)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01224-9
In Memoriam: Lloyd Robinson (1929–2020)
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/03/lloyd-robinson-in-memoriam.html
UCSC thin-film expertise to help develop NASA’s next generation of space telescopes
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/03/mirror-technology.html
Astronomers use slime mold model to reveal dark threads of the cosmic web
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/03/cosmic-web.html
New telescope to look for laser pulses from life around other planets
https://news.berkeley.edu/story_jump/new-telescope-to-look-for-laser-pulses-from-life-around-other-planets/
Heising-Simons Foundation supports exoplanet imaging projects at UC Santa Cruz
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/02/exoplanet-imaging.html
Innovative Telescopes Set to Detect New Phenomena, Signals from Deep Space
Two, first-of-a-kind telescopes poised to collectively image the entire observable sky in the current search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) are now installed in the Astrograph Dome at Lick Observatory. These novel devices, part of a planned collection of large lenses, could help researchers on project Panoramic SETI (PANOSETI) discover new astronomical phenomena or signals from […]
Dead Monster Galaxy Found Lurking in the Distant Universe
https://ps.uci.edu/news/125
The night sky is increasingly dystopian
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/1/7/21003272/space-x-starlink-astronomy-light-pollution
Astronomers Detect Large Amounts Of Oxygen In Ancient Star’s Atmosphere
https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/large-amounts-of-oxygen-detected-in-ancient-stars-atmosphere
Astronomers discover class of strange objects near our galaxy’s enormous black hole
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200115132316.htm
$1 million gift creates William Wallace Campbell Director’s Fund for Lick Observatory
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/01/lick-campbell-fund.html
First national US observatory to be named after a woman!
https://www.lsst.org/news/vro-press-release