UCO in the News
Recent press releases feature Lick and Keck Observatories and astronomical research at University of California.
2005 Press Releases
- 12/22/05: UCB: Keck Telescope Captures New Ring Around Uranus
- 12/20/05: UCLA: Astronomers Use Keck Adaptive Optics to Take Clearest Images of Galactic Center
- 12/12/05: UCB: Hundreds of Auroras Detected on Mars
- 11/16/05: UCB: Astrophysicists Put the Kibosh on Theory of Star Formation
- 11/14/05: Professor Donald Osterbrock Updates Classic Astrophysics Book
- 11/8/05: UCSC Physicists Deliver Detector for GLAST
- 11/7/05: Hudson Foundation Awards Keck Observatory $75,000 Grant
- 10/6/05: UCO Director Joe Miller Steps Down after 14 Years Service
- 10/5/05: Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Solidly Linked to Stellar Collisions
- 9/30/05: Keck II's Adaptive Optics System Helps CalTech Observers Find 10th Planet's Moon
- 9/6/05: Neptune-Size Extrasolar Planets Discovered
- 9/1/05: UCB: Planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy Shares $1 Million Shaw Prize in Astronomy
- 7/28/05: UCB: Pinpointing Red Supergiant Exploding in Nearby Whirlpool Galaxy
- 6/22/05: Dust Belt Around Nearby Star Clear Sign of Exoplanet
- 6/13/05: UCB: Most Earth-like Extrasolar Planet Yet
- 5/31/05: UCB: Hot on the Trail of Exotic Flashers
- 5/26/05: UCB: Supernovae of Unusual Stars Likely Source of Gamma-Ray Bursts
- 5/17/05: UCSC Dedicates New Laboratory for Adaptive Optics
- 5/16/05: ASP Awards 2005 Bruce Medal to UCSC Professor Emeritus and former Lick Observatory Director Robert P. Kraft
- 5/12/05: First-Ever Infrared Flash Challenges Old Notion of Biggest Bang
- 5/9/05: UCD: Computer Expert Joins Telescope Team
- 2/16/05: Keck II Telescope Images Titan Before Cassini Fly-By
- 2/14/05: Keck I Telescope Detects First Gamma-Ray Bursts from 'Swift' Satellite
- 1/24/05: Professor Stan Woosley Awarded Rossi Prize for Pioneering Work on Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts
- 1/12/05: Keck II: New AO Laser System Produces Sharpest IR Images Ever
