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Illustration of the mini-Neptune TOI 560.01, located 103 light-years away in the Hydra constellation.
February 3, 2022
Puffy Planets Lose Atmospheres, Become Super-Earths
ZTF image of Andromeda galaxy with a Starlink streak through it.
January 17, 2022
Palomar Survey Instrument Analyzes Impact of Starlink Satellites
Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg
January 14, 2022
Ginsburgs Give to Create New Quantum Center and Building at Caltech
The final image of JWST as it launches away from Earth
December 27, 2021
NASA's Largest and Most Powerful Telescope Launches
A before after look at the CARMA site.
December 17, 2021
CARMA Telescope Site Restored
A collage of science images
December 15, 2021
2021: Year in Review
Tabletop optics in a laboratory that steer laser light as it is used to measure vibrations in a glass disk that serves as an experimental stand-in for a mirror in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The experiment aims to improve LIGO mirror coatings. New coatings c twan reduce background noise in LIGO's mirrors by a factor of two, thereby increasing the volume of space that LIGO can probe by a factor of eight.
December 6, 2021
New Quantum Measurement Center Launched by Sherman Fairchild Foundation Grant
Pinkish mirror coating on a test disk.
September 29, 2021
Extending LIGO's Reach Into the Cosmos
Artwork of the HR 8799 system showing a white star and four red planets.
July 29, 2021
New Spin on Planet Formation Mysteries
Artwork of a white dwarf in comparison to Earth's moon.
June 30, 2021
A White Dwarf Living on the Edge
Artwork of a neutron star–black hole merger
June 29, 2021
LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA finds elusive mergers of black holes with neutron stars
Richard Feder-Staehle, Chi Nguyen, and Rick Evavold of the CIBER-2 team working on the CIBER-2 payload.
June 7, 2021
CIBER-2 Takes Its First Flight
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