Astronomers uncover a surprising trend in galaxy evolution

A comprehensive study of hundreds of galaxies has revealed an unexpected pattern of change that extends back 8 billion years.

Hubble produces deepest ever view of the universe

UCSC astronomer Garth Illingworth's team assembled the "eXtreme Deep Field" image of distant galaxies.

Dark galaxies of the early universe spotted for the first time

For the first time, dark galaxies--an early phase of galaxy formation, predicted by theory but unobserved until now--may have been spotted.

New images capture 'stealth merger' of dwarf galaxies

Images of a nearby dwarf galaxy show the remains of an even smaller companion galaxy in the process of merging with its host.

Astronomers' pristine gas discovery among top scientific breakthroughs of 2011

Lists from Science and Physics World of the top scientific breakthroughs of the year include the discovery of primordial gas clouds by UCSC astronomers.

Keck, Magellan & Hubble Telescopes Find Galactic Recyclers

Astronomers, including UC Santa Cruz researcher Jessica Werk, used a trio of the world's best telescopes to study the uncharted space around vibrant star-birthing galaxies and their not-so-vibrant siblings.

Astronomers find clouds of primordial gas from the early universe

For the first time, astronomers have found pristine clouds of the primordial gas that formed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang.

Galaxy mergers not the trigger for most black hole feeding frenzies

A survey of distant galaxies shows that galaxy mergers are not responsible for most active galactic nuclei.

Small distant galaxies host supermassive black holes

Using the Hubble Space Telescope to probe the distant universe, astronomers have found supermassive black holes growing in surprisingly small galaxies, suggesting that central black holes formed at an early stage in galaxy evolution.

UCSC astronomers find most distant galaxy candidate yet seen

Astronomers have found what may be the most distant galaxy ever seen, about 13.2 billion light-years away.

Sandra Faber featured in "Hubblecast" video

The Hubblecast caught up with some of the key players in Hubble's history, including an astronaut, a Nobel Prize winner and one of the scientists who diagnosed Hubble's blurred vision in 1990. In this episode, narrated by veteran ESA scientist Bob Fosbury, they tell Hubble’s story through their personal experiences.

Galaxies far, far away

Using a new camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at UCSC are making breakthrough discoveries about the distant universe.

UCSC Astronomer Sandra Faber featured in Santa Cruz Good Times article.........

"Transcending Time With a Telescope".

New Hubble treasury project to survey first third of cosmic time

Astronomers will peer deep into the universe in five directions to document the early history of star formation and galaxy evolution in an ambitious new project requiring an unprecedented amount of time on the Hubble Space Telescope.

UCSC astronomers Garth Illingworth and Rychard Bouwens garnered widespread media coverage

for their discovery of the most distant galaxies ever observed, including stories in the New York Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, New York Daily News, London Times, U.S. News & World Report, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Science News, Nature News, National Geographic News, and an AP wire story. Illingworth was also interviewed on the Patt Morrison Show on Los Angeles NPR affiliate KPCC.

An international team including UCSC astrophysicist Piero Madau

has used highly sophisticated hydrodynamical simulations of dwarf galaxies to solve a long-standing discrepancy of the cold dark matter paradigm. The results will appear in the January 14th issue of Nature.

Hubble reaches "undiscovered country" of primeval galaxies

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies and uncovered a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies that have never been seen before.

UCSC physicist Anthony Aguirre highlighted in Discover and Astronomy magazine

feature stories on the possibility that we inhabit just one of many "universes"-- and that we might actually be able to detect the presence of others.

Astronomer Garth Illingworth leads team

that has begun observations with new images and spectra from a rejuventated Hubble Space Telescope and is quoted on this subject in two ScienceNews articles; September 16th and September 26th.

Sandra Faber, UCSC astronomer, co-wrote a major review article published in Nature on July 9 on the role of black holes in galaxy formation and evolution.

Sandra Faber, UCSC astronomer, was interviewed with her mentor and dark-matter maven Vera Rubin

Dark matter is a funny thing to have discovered. Not only has no one ever really seen it, but it is impossible to see, at least in the traditional sense. Even the woman who found it thinks it might not exist. And she did not really find it, she just proved it is there. Or seems to be.

Last outer space repair of Hubble telescope pairs genius of two South Bay women

Astronomer Sandra Faber was featured in a San Jose Mercury News article about the shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

DEEP2 Survey of distant galaxies reveals evidence of "waltzing black holes" about to merge

Astronomers use gamma-ray burst to probe star formation in the early universe

The brilliant afterglow of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) has enabled astronomers to probe the star-forming environment of a distant galaxy, resulting in the first detection of molecular gas in a GRB host galaxy.

Serendiptous observations by UC Santa Cruz undergraduate Kyle Kaplan reveal rare events in the life of distant quasar

UCSC Galaxy Formation Work Featured in Science News

UC Santa Cruz Astronomers study tiny galaxy halfway across the universe

The AEGIS Survey is being featured in Google Earth Gallery as Google's first dataset for illustrating its multiwavelength astronomical capabilities

Adaptive optics pinpoints two supermassive black holes in colliding galaxies

AEGIS survey reveals new principle governing galaxy formation and evolution

Astronomers trace the evolution of the first galaxies in the universe

Joel Primack of the UCSC Physics Department and his co-author Nancy Abrams were interviewed on NPR on August 24, 2006, concerning their new book on cosmology "View from the Center of the Universe."

A simple survey yields a cosmic conundrum

Professors to tackle age-old questions at Foundation Forum