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  • Globular star cluster 47 Tuc
  • Connie Rockosi, associate professor of astronomy & astrophysics
  • Abell 2218 (HST).
  • An international team including UCSC astrophysicists
  • Galaxy formation model showing dark matter (left), gas temperature (middle), and stars (right) at three epochs in the formation of an elliptical galaxy.
  • Two galaxies with active nuclei featured in a recent Nature review
  • Eris Simulation
  • Eris Simulation
  • The formation of a galaxy in simulations by Ceverino, Dekel & Primack.
  • UCSC played major roles in building the Fermi/GLAST
  • A pillar of interstellar dust in the Eagle Nebula (HST).
  • The peculiar elliptical galaxy NGC 1275
  • H II region and young stars in the galaxy M33(HST).
  • Milky Way destined for head-on collision with Andromeda galaxy
  • "The XDF is the deepest image of the sky ever obtained and reveals the faintest and most distant galaxies ever seen. XDF allows us to explore further back in time than ever before," said Garth Illingworth of the University of California at Santa Cruz, principal investigator of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2009 (HUDF09) program.
  • This NASA graphic shows how astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to see deeper into the cosmos than ever before.
  • Galaxy Evolution
  • Via Lactea I simulation of Milky Way dark matter and satellites
  • The merger of two neutron stars
  • The Illingworth group discovered many galaxies merging
  • UCSC Astronomer Claire Max and colleagues
  • Astrophysicist Mark Krumholz's group is studying star-formation
  • These Keck images of Neptune with and without AO
  • Jet formation and breakout in a collapsar gamma-ray burst model
  • State-of-the-art simulations of a supernova explosion (Stan Woosley).
  • Many UCSC research teams use the Hubble Ultradeep
  • Jet formation and breakout in a collapsar gamma-ray burst model