Events
UCO Events
2010 Music of the Spheres concert season has ended.
2010 Summer Visitors Program has ended.
Other Events
Ongoing Astronomy Programs (Bay Area)
Sidewalk Astronomers (podcasts, events, blogs)
2010 UCO Press Releases
Featuring Lick & Keck Observatories and University of California Research
- 10/28/10: UCB: Studies Show that Solar Systems Like Ours May be Common
- 10/27/10: UCSC: Professor Greg Laughlin to Deliver Halliday Lecture, "Search for Other Earths"
- 10/19/10: UCSC: Mark Krumholz Wins NSF CAREER Award
- 10/19/10: UCLA: Weird, Warm Spot on Exoplanet
- 9/29/10: UCSC: First Potentially Habitable Earth-Size Exoplanet Discovered
- 9/29/10: Keck: Observations Lead to Discovery of First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet
- 9/21/10: UCLA: Universal Primordial Magnetic Fields Discovered in Deep Space
- 9/14/10: UCLA: Evidence of Stellar Cannibalism Found
- 9/12/10: LLNL: Impacting Comets May Produce Amino Acids
- 9/10/10: UCB: Astronomers Track Asteroids Impacting Jupiter
- 8/26/10: UCSB: Kepler Finds Multiple Planets Transiting Same Star
- 8/25/10: UCLA: SOFIA to Solve Mysteries about our Galaxy
- 8/17/10: Keck: NSF Awards $1.72 Million for Keck I Adaptive Optics Upgrade
- 7/29/10: UCB: World-Renowned Astronomer Donald C. Backer Dies at Age 66
- 7/20/10: UCI: New Concept Could Refocus Search for ETs
- 6/3/10: UCSC: Jerry Nelson Awarded Prestigious Kavli Prize
- 5/25/10: UCB: Sunlight Causes Asteroids to Split
- 5/24/10: UCB: Physicists Track Comet Closest to Sun
- 5/21/10: UCSC: Astrophysicist Jonathan Fortney Awarded Urey Prize for Planetary Research
- 5/20/10: UCI: Brightest Galaxies Cluster in Busiest Parts of Universe
- 5/19/10: UCB: Possible New Class of Supernova Puts Calcium in Bones
- 5/18/10: UCSB: Unique Eclipsing Binary Star System Discovered
- 4/29/10: UCSB: Public Astronomy Lecture "Hot Results on Cool Galaxies"
- 4/19/10: UCB: Geoff Marcy Elected to American Academy's Fellow & Honorary Members
- 4/21/10: LBNL: World's Best Supernova Dataset used in Search for Dark Energy
- 4/15/10: UCSD: Light Reflected off the Moon Dimmed by Dust
- 4/13/10: UCSB: Discovery of 9 Planets Challenges Planet Formation Theory
- 3/31/10: Keck: "Light Echoes" Provide New View of Historical Supernova
- 3/22/10: UCB: Helium Rain Explains Lack of Neon in Jupiter's Atmosphere
- 3/17/10: UCSB: International Team of Scientists Discovers New Planet
- 3/15/10: UCSC: Hubble Treasury Project to Survey First Third of Cosmic Time
- 3/10/10: UCB: Study Validates General Relativity, Dark Matter
- 3/3/10: UCSC: Garth Illingworth Awarded Honorary Degree by UWA
- 3/1/10: UCD: Dark Matter Used to Measure Age of Universe
- 3/1/10: UCSB: Gravitational Lensing Measures Size and Age of Universe
- 2/25/10: UCLA: Dark Matter Conference Highlights New Research
- 2/18/10: UCB: Extrasolar Planet Images Win Award for Most Outstanding Paper in Science
- 2/18/10: UCLA: WISE Mission Releases First Images
- 2/17/10: UCSC: Jonathan Fortney Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
- 1/29/10: UCSD: Renowned Astrophysicist Geoffrey Burbidge Dies at 84
- 1/20/10: UCSB: Tommaso Treu Awarded Newton Lacy Pierce Prize by AAS
- 1/19/10: LBL: Gravitational Lensing has Potential to Measure Dark Matter
- 1/7/10: Keck: New Tidal Streams Found in Andromeda Reveal History of Galactic Mergers
- 1/7/10: Keck: Second Smallest Exoplanet Discovered
- 1/6/10: UCLA: Astronomers Map Shape of Galactic Dark Matter
- 1/4/10: UCSC: Hubble Uncovers Primordial Galaxies Never Seen Before