Geoff Marcy is a Berkeley professor of astronomy and, in little more than a decade, his research team has discovered about half of the known planets outside of our solar system. I sat in with him one night this fall as he used the Keck telescope to scan nearby stars for planets. The result is [...]
This was fun to report. A short article, called “Lucky Star,” is out in the new California magazine about astronomer Maryam Modjaz and her work documenting a supernova. The twist was that, through a bit of good luck, she and her colleagues had telescopes pointed at it the whole time–before it even exploded. In the [...]
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