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 UCLA professor proposes simpler way to define what makes a planetWednesday, November 18, 2015 |
 7th Annual Exploring Your Universe Science Fair on November 8thSunday, November 1, 2015 The seventh annual Exploring Your Universe (EYU) will take place on Sunday, November 8th from 12 - 5 pm (with nighttime activities to follow from 5-8 pm) at UCLA's campus. This event is FREE of charge to the public and FAMILY-FRIENDLY! |
 Jupiter-like planet discovered outside our solar systemMonday, August 17, 2015 |
 Ong and Vassiliev play prominent roles in Cherenkov Telescope Array developmentTuesday, July 28, 2015 Professors Rene Ong and Vladimir Vassiliev are playing prominent roles in the development of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), which will be the largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory in the world. |
 Andrea Ghez awarded 2015 Bakerian MedalWednesday, July 22, 2015 Professor Andrea Ghez has been awarded the Royal Society of London's Bakerian Medal. The Bakerian Medal and Lecture is the Royal Society's premier lecture in the physical sciences. |
 Millions of young stars are forming in a nearby galaxyMonday, March 30, 2015 More than a million young stars are forming in a hot, dusty cloud of molecular gases in a tiny galaxy near our own, an international team of astronomers has discovered. The star cluster is buried within a supernebula in a dwarf galaxy known as NGC... |
 First discovery of a distant star exploding into a supernovaThursday, March 5, 2015 Using multiple images that reached the Earth at different times, UCLA Physics & Astronomy researchers have reported the first discovery of a distant star exploding into a supernova. A supernova, the end stage of life for very massive stars, can... |
 Aomawa Shields named 2015 TED FellowFriday, February 13, 2015 Postdoctoral scholar Aomawa Shields has been named a TED2015 Fellow and will give a TED Talk at the TED2015 conference this March. |
 Smadar Naoz awarded Annie Jump Cannon prizeThursday, January 22, 2015 Smadar Naoz, assistant professor in the department of physics and astronomy, was selected to receive the prestigious 2015 American Astronomical Society Annie Jump Cannon Prize for outstanding research and the promise for future exceptional research. |
 Astronomy Live! brings students to UCLA via outreachSaturday, November 8, 2014 Please join us at UCLA on Sunday Nov. 16th for this year's most exciting day of science, Exploring Your Universe. It's free and family-friendly. |