2007 UCO Press Releases
Featuring Lick & Keck Observatories and University of California research
- 12/10/07: UCSC: Former UCO Director Joe Miller Appointed Provost for Silicon Valley Initiatives
- 12/5/07: Moore Foundation Commits $200 Million Support for Thirty-Meter Telescope
- 12/4/07: UCB: Nobelist George Smoot Launches New Cosmology Center
- 11/14/07: UCSC: New Model Demonstrates Mechanism of Brightest Supernova
- 11/14/07: UCLA: Evidence of Colliding Rocky Planet Embryos in the Pleiades
- 11/6/07: Planet Hunters Discover Record-Breaking 5th Planet Orbiting Star beyond our Solar System
- 10/25/07: Sandra Faber Elected AAAS Fellow
- 10/16/07: Stan Woosley Honored at UCSC's Inaugural Founders' Day Event
- 10/4/07: UCSB: Astronomers "Weigh" Tiny Galaxy Halfway Across Universe
- 10/4/07: UCSC: Astronomers Study Galaxy Halfway Across Universe
- 10/2/07: AEGIS Images of Distant Galaxy Now Available on Google Sky
- 9/5/07: LBL: Joint Dark Energy Mission a Priority
- 9/4/07: $600,000 Gift from Levy Foundation Helps Fund Automated Planet Finder
- 8/27/07: Thirty-meter Telescope Project Receives $15 Million from Moore Foundation
- 8/23/07: UCB: New View of Uranus' Rings
- 7/17/07: UCB & LBNL Share Gruber Cosmology Prize for Discovering Universe Acceleration
- 5/29/07: UC-Carnegie Team Spots 28 New Exoplanets, 7 New Brown Dwarfs
- 5/17/07: Keck Adaptive Optics Pinpoint Two Supermassive Black Holes in Colliding Galaxies
- 5/7/07: UCSC: Garth Illingworth Testifies on Capitol Hill
- 5/7/07: UCSC: Douglas Lin Appointed Director of Kavli Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics
- 5/7/07: UCB: Largest, Brightest Supernova Discovered
- 5/3/07: UCSC: Planet Hunter Michael Brown to Give Halliday Lecture
- 5/2/07: UCB: Diamond Anvils Plus Lasers Generate Pressures like Giant Planet Cores
- 4/30/07: Lick Observatory's Summer Programs Announced
- 4/4/07: UCB: Massive Star Burps then Explodes
- 3/21/07: $400,000 Gift Brings UCSD Closer to
Funding Unique Telescope - 3/6/07: AEGIS Survey Reveals Unifying Principle Governing Galaxy Formation and Evolution
- 1/23/07: UCSD: Physicists Develop Test for "String Theory"
- 1/12/07: Donald Osterbrock, Former Director of Lick Observatory, Dies at Age 82
- 1/10/07: UCLA: Large Scale Galaxy Survey Reveals Football-Shaped Bulge
- 1/10/07: UCSC: Astronomers Find Most Distant Star Cluster Hidden behind Nearby Star Cluster
- 1/9/07: UCB: Alex Filippenko Receives Physics Research and Teaching Award
- 1/9/07: UCB: Rethinking Last Century's Closest, Brightest Supernova
- 1/8/07: UCB: Dust Around Nearby Star Like Powder Snow
- 1/7/07: UCSC: Astronomers Discover Enormous Halo of Red Giants around Andromeda
