Events
UCO Events
Apollo 11 Anniversary: 40 years ago Lick Observatory shot a laser at a small reflective target on the moon to precisely measure the distance between earth and moon. Read first-hand account by Remington Stone, Lick Support Scientist.
Live webcasts from Lick and Keck Observatories were featured in Around the World in 80 Telescopes, a 24-hour webcast from the world's greatest observatories. Part of ESO's 100 Hours of Astronomy (100HA), celebrating the International Year of Astronomy.
Other Events
Ongoing Astronomy Programs (Bay Area)
Sidewalk Astronomers (podcasts, events, blogs)
2009 UCO Press Releases
Featuring Lick & Keck Observatories and University of California Research
- 12/14/09: UCSC: New Planet Discovery Suggests Low-Mass Planets Common
- 12/2/09: LBL: Superbright Supernova First of its Kind
- 11/17/09: China Joins Thirty-Meter Telescope Project
- 11/5/09: UCB: Rediscovered Rapid Supernova Possible New Class of Exploding Star
- 10/26/09: UCSC professor Jerry Nelson to Give Public Lecture on Thirty-Meter Telescope
- 10/25/09: UCB: Geoff Marcy Wins Carl Sagan Prize
- 10/15/09: UCB: NSF Commits $29 Million for World's Deepest Underground Lab
- 10/1/09: LBL: First Light for BOSS, a New Kind of Search for Dark Energy
- 9/8/09: Lick Observatory: Event Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Shane Telescope
- 8/28/09: UCB: Space Sciences Lab Celebrates 50 Years and 75 Satellites
- 8/26/09: Mirror Cast for Baja CA IR Telescope: UC, UAz, UNAM & INAOE Collaborate
- 8/12/09: UCSC: Variability of Type 1a Supernovae has Implications for Dark Energy Studies
- 8/5/09: UCSC Astrophyicist Establishes John Bahcall Award for Top Mexican Physics Student
- 7/21/09: TMT: Mauna Kea Chosen as Site for World's Largest Telescope
- 7/16/09: UCSC: Astrophysicists Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz Wins Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
- 7/8/09: UCSD: Astrophysicists Solve Mystery in Milky Way Galaxy
- 7/8/09: Keck: New Method Helps Find Most Distant Supernova
- 6/25/09: UCI: Giant Supernova is Most Distant Ever Detected
- 6/16/09: UCSD: Professor Frank Shu Awarded $1 Million Shaw Prize in Astronomy
- 6/9/09: UCB: Red Giant Star Betelgeuse Mysteriously Shrinking
- 6/8/09: UCB: Lifting the Fog on "Dark" Gamma Ray Bursts
- 5/28/09: UCB: Rare Radio Supernova is Nearest Supernova in Five Years
- 5/19/09: UCB: SETI@home celebrates 10th Anniversary
- 5/18/09: LBNL: New Method Standardizes Brightness of Type 1a Supernova
- 5/1/09: UCSD: Professor Frank Shu Awarded Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal
- 4/28/09: UCB Professor Alex Filippenko Elected to National Academy of Sciences
- 3/9/09: Keck and Kepler Team Up to Find Other Earths
- 3/6/09: UCB: Launching Kepler Telescope to Search for Earth-like Planets
- 2/19/09: UCSC: Mark Krumholz Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
- 2/18/09: UCSC: Sandra Faber to Receive Franklin Institute's Bower Award
- 1/28/09: UCSC: Mapping Extrasolar Planet's Yearly 700 Degree K Annual Temperature Increase
- 1/15/09: UCSC: New Study Solves Mystery of Massive Star Formation
- 1/6/09: UCSC: Gamma-ray Burst Aids Understanding of Early Universe Star Formation
