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Detection of Pristine Gas Two Billion Years After the Big Bang

When completed later this decade, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will enable astronomers to study objects in our own solar system and stars throughout our Milky Way and its neighboring galaxies, and forming galaxies at the very edge of the observable Universe, near the beginning of time.

Lightning storm over San Francisco Bay from Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton (Image courtesty of L. Hatch © )

A pillar of interstellar dust in the Eagle Nebula (HST). Krumholz's group is modeling the process of star formation in similar Galactic regions.

Annual Graduate Student Observational Astronomy Workshop at Lick Observatory. 2009 (Image courtesty of L. Hatch © )

Kepler Explorer app puts distant planets at your fingertips

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April 19, 2012Physics undergrad makes the most of research opportunities
April 3, 2012Kepler Explorer app puts distant planets at your fingertips
February 8, 2012New images capture 'stealth merger' of dwarf galaxies
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Across a Sea of Suns: Charting Distant Worlds, Other Earths

Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, delivered the 46th annual UCSC Faculty Research Lecture, February 2012.
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