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Astronaut Jessica Watkins Visits Caltech
04/12/2023

Astronaut Jessica Watkins Visits Caltech

Julia Ehlert
The former Caltech postdoctoral alumna shared the story of her career and time in space as the first Black woman to crew the ISS.
Jessica Watkins poses for a photo with the crowd in Beckman Auditorium
Laboratory Solar Flares Reveal Clues to Mechanism Behind Bursts of High-Energy Particles
04/06/2023

Laboratory Solar Flares Reveal Clues to Mechanism Behind Bursts of High-Energy Particles

Robert Perkins
Like a rope breaking strand by strand, solar flares kink and break when too much current flows through them, triggering massive blasts of X-rays
Simulated loop
Can Cosmic Collisions Be Predicted Before They Happen?
03/10/2023

Can Cosmic Collisions Be Predicted Before They Happen?

Whitney Clavin
LIGO researchers are developing early-warning software to nab neutron-star mergers more quickly .
Artwork of colliding neutron stars
Physicists Create New Model of Ringing Black Holes
02/21/2023

Physicists Create New Model of Ringing Black Holes

Whitney Clavin
New analysis shows “nonlinear” effects contained in gravitational waves.
Simulation of a black hole merger.
"Green Comet" Viewing Event Brings Community Together
02/09/2023

"Green Comet" Viewing Event Brings Community Together

Julia Ehlert
Caltech’s astronomy outreach group hosted an event for community members to see and learn about the “green comet” discovered by Caltech-led Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) at Palomar Observatory.
A cluster of stars as seen through a telescope's eyepiece, with a glowing green blob in the middle
Watson Lecture on February 8: Chuck Steidel (PhD '90) on Seeing Galaxies Form in the Ancient Universe Using JWST
02/01/2023

Watson Lecture on February 8: Chuck Steidel (PhD '90) on Seeing Galaxies Form in the Ancient Universe Using JWST

Katie Neith
On Wednesday, February 8, at 7:30 p.m. PT in Beckman Auditorium on the Caltech campus, Chuck Steidel (PhD ’90), the Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy, will continue the 100th anniversary season of the Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series with “Galactic Paleontology with JWST: Finding Living Fossils in the Ancient Universe.”
Chuck Steidel in front of Cahill
Randomness in Quantum Machines Helps Verify Their Accuracy
01/24/2023

Randomness in Quantum Machines Helps Verify Their Accuracy

Whitney Clavin
New error-detection method takes advantage of the way quantum information is scrambled.
An illustration of a pattern of quantum randomness.
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory Decommissioning Update
01/19/2023

Caltech Submillimeter Observatory Decommissioning Update

The removal and restoration of the site is expected to be completed during 2023.
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
Do Electrons Spin?
01/17/2023

Do Electrons Spin?

Whitney Clavin
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Chip Sebens thinks they do thanks to their fields.
Illustration of electron spin
#SoCaltech: Sandra O'Neill
01/17/2023

#SoCaltech: Sandra O'Neill

Caltech Magazine
Sandra O’Neill, a fourth-year undergraduate student, co-authored a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters in February 2022 that showed evidence for the tightest-knit supermassive black hole duo observed to date.
Sandra O'Neill wearing a black shirt and jeans, standing in front of an image of outer space