First Pictures of Extra-Solar Planets
(2008-11-14)
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Benjamin Zuckerman from UCLA is co-author of a
paper recently published in which astronomers report obtaining
an image of a star orbited by giant planets - the first image of multiple planets orbiting a star outside of our solar system.
Five coauthors on the paper were previously either graduate students or post-doctoral fellows at UCLA.
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Astronomers Selected for First Observations with SOFIA
(2008-10-23)
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Three astronomers, among them Mark Morris of UCLA, have been selected to participate in the first observations of the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a highly modified Boeing 747SP aircraft that carries a 2.5-meter (98-inch) diameter airborne infrared telescope.
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Astronomers Find Remains of Planet Collision
(2008-09-24)
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A group of astronomers, among them UCLA's Ben Zuckerman, have studied the dust disk of the close binary star BD+20 307 and believe it to be formed within the past few hundred thousand years. This dust is believed to be the result of the collision of planets in the system.
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