This month’s Science@Cal lecture will feature Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz, Kepler Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley speaking on the topic of “Magnetic Stars, Space Weather and Life: Stellar Activity and its Effect on Planets”
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by Eric on October 22, 2009
To celebrate Galilean Nights weekend, the UC Berkeley Department of Astronomy will be hosting a “telescope building” star party. A limited number of the easy-to-assemble Galileoscope telescope will be made available for the low, low price of just $10
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Galileoscope,
International Year of Astronomy,
UC Berkeley
by Eric on October 16, 2009
by Eric on August 14, 2009
Galaxy Zoo is looking for help in finding supernova. Unfortunately, the site is currently down, but for now you still have an opportunity to help classify galaxies at Galaxy Zoo 2.
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Galaxy Zoo,
supernovae
The only total solar eclipse of 2009 will bypass the U.S., so the best way to catch it will be via webcast.
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solar eclipse
by Eric on April 21, 2009
Rack up another exoplanet find for Michel Mayor of the University of Geneva. At today’s session of the JENAM conference at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, Mayor announced that yet another planet has been found orbiting that exoplanet superstar Gliese 581.
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exoplanet
by Eric on April 17, 2009
It’s time for the UC Berkeley annual “Cal Day” open house!
According to the official Cal Day home page: “It’s a day like no other. Spend it in Cal’s classrooms and labs, museums and performance halls, libraries and arenas. Take in all that Berkeley has to offer.”
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paleontology,
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by Eric on March 29, 2009
As part of a year-long program to make astronomy accessible to everyone, teams from the International Astronomical Union and the American Astronomical Society have developed a $15 telescope dubbed the “Galileoscope.”
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