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Orbital physics is child's play with 'Super Planet Crash’

UCSC Astronomers Discover Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz's supercomputer lab for undergrads

UCSC acquires powerful new astrophysics supercomputer system

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

SN 1006 Supernova Remnant (Hubble)

UCSC researchers use the Hubble Space Telescope and computer simulations to understand the atmospheres of other worlds

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

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Sandy Faber and President Obama

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July 21, 2017Superluminous supernova marks the death of a star at cosmic high noon
July 3, 2017'Little Cub' gives astronomers rare chance to see galaxy demise
June 13, 2017Astronomer Jerry Nelson, pioneering designer of large telescopes, dies at age 73

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