Berkeley Astronomy

02/21/2025

Congratulations to Professor Wenbin Lu on receiving awards from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement in the first year of Scialog: Early Science with the LSST. Wenbin is among 20 early career scientists on eight cross-disciplinary teams who will receive these awards. 🔭🌟

👉https://astro.berkeley.edu/news/wenbin-lu-will-receive-awards-research-corporation-science-advancement-first-year-scialog-early

01/22/2025

A third outrigger radio array will go online this week at Hat Creek Observatory. “When paired with the three outriggers, we should be able to accurately pinpoint one FRB a day to its galaxy, which is substantial,” UC Berkeley Astronomer Calvin Leung said. 🔭

👉 https://astro.berkeley.edu/astronomers-thought-they-understood-fast-radio-bursts-a-recent-one-calls-that-into-question/

01/16/2025

Congratulations to Professor Raffaella Margutti on receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for her NSF CAREER grant, titled “CAREER: A Holistic Study of Compact-Object Mergers across the Electromagnetic Spectrum”. 🎉

👉 https://astro.berkeley.edu/raffaella-margutti-awarded-the-presidential-early-career-award-for-scientists-and-engineers/

10/25/2024

Congratulations to Sanjana Curtis, an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley, on winning the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications! 🎉 This prestigious award recognizes science journalists, research scientists, and science communicators who have developed creative, original work to communicate issues and advances in science, engineering, and medicine to the general public.🎙✨
👉https://www.nationalacademies.org/awards/excellence-in-communication/winners/sanjana-curtis

10/07/2024

Congratulations to UC Berkeley alum Keivan G. Stassun on being awarded the prestigious 2024 MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship! 🎉 As an astronomy major, Keivan's contributions to the field are truly inspiring. We're proud to see our alumni making such a remarkable impact! 🚀

👉 https://ls.berkeley.edu/news/two-uc-berkeley-alums-awarded-2024-macarthur-genius-fellowships

Photo Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

09/26/2024

Exciting astronomical discovery! Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet 4,000 light-years away, offering a glimpse into our planet's distant future. This system features a white dwarf similar to our sun and an Earth-sized companion in a larger orbit. As our sun evolves into a white dwarf, could our Earth one day resemble this distant system? 🌍🔭

Read more: https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/09/26/this-rocky-planet-around-a-white-dwarf-resembles-earth-8-billion-years-from-now/

09/24/2024

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Gibor Basri, who will receive the 2024 Arthur B.C. Walker II Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding achievement in astronomy and education by an African American scientist. 🎉🔭

Read more here: https://astro.berkeley.edu/gibor-basri-honored-with-walker-award/

08/23/2024

Congratulations to recent Ph.D. grad Jamie Sullivan on winning the Brinson Prize Fellowship! This prestigious fellowship supports cutting-edge research in observational cosmology. 🔭✨
👉🏻 https://brinsonfoundation.org/brinson-prize-fellowship-program/

04/26/2024

Tony nominee Raúl Esparza leads in a new musical by Tony winner Michael Mayer & Emmy winner Danny Strong. "Galileo" follows Galileo's clash with Rome's religious institution over celestial discoveries, set to an original rock score. Galileo will likely join the constellation of world premieres that traveled from Berkeley Rep to Broadway — be the first to see it here!

04/09/2024

The Department of Astronomy brought together the UC Berkeley campus community for yesterday's solar eclipse!

03/14/2024

Today is Big Give! The UC Berkeley community's annual opportunity to give back to the departments and programs closest to their hearts.

Join us this year in supporting the Friends of Astronomy Fund. Your generosity enriches all facets of our department, from enabling students’ travel for research to innovating teaching labs where students uncover fascinating truths about the cosmos. Each gift makes a difference.

Follow this link to donate to the Astronomy Department and show your support for our students: https://givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/76721/department/76844

Special for this year's Big Give: If we receive 40 gifts by 9 p.m., we will unlock a $2,000 gift from an anonymous donor!

03/12/2024

SAVE THE DATE

Thursday, March 14 is Big Give, the annual online giving day when the entire community comes together to support their favorite departments and programs.

Join us this year in supporting the Friends of Astronomy Fund. Your generosity enriches all facets of our department, from enabling students’ travel for research to innovating teaching labs where students uncover fascinating truths about the cosmos. Each gift makes a difference.

On March 14, follow this link https://ow.ly/WeUe50QRs5P to donate to the Department and show your support for our students.

Special for this year's Big Give: once 40 gifts are made to the Friends of Astronomy Fund, we will unlock a $2,000 gift from an anonymous donor!

See you on March 14 for !

Show your support to UC Berkeley during the 10th Big Give by making a gift before 9 p.m. March 14!

12/18/2023

Watch an enlightening conversation with UC Berkeley's Astronomy Department Chair, Professor Jessica Lu, in a captivating discussion on inspiring new astronomers and UC Berkeley's incredible offerings.
https://ow.ly/YiKP50QjTW2