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Powerful Auroras Shed Light On Brown Dwarfs
07/29/2015

Powerful Auroras Shed Light On Brown Dwarfs

Kimm Fesenmaier
Based on new observations, Caltech astronomers say brown dwarfs behave more like giant planets than small stars.
Alone in the Darkness: Mariner 4 to Mars, 50 Years Later
07/14/2015

Alone in the Darkness: Mariner 4 to Mars, 50 Years Later

Rod Pyle
July 14 marks 50 years of visual reconnaissance of the solar system by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), beginning with Mariner 4's flyby of Mars in 1965.
Distant Black Hole Wave Twists Like Giant Whip
07/09/2015

Distant Black Hole Wave Twists Like Giant Whip

Ker Than
Magnetic waves from a black hole are set in motion like whips being jerked from side to side.
JPL News: Searing Sun Seen in X-rays
07/08/2015

JPL News: Searing Sun Seen in X-rays

Ramanuj Basu
NASA's NuSTAR telescope has captured high-energy X-rays coming from active regions across the sun.
Discovering a New Stage in the Galactic Lifecycle
06/24/2015

Discovering a New Stage in the Galactic Lifecycle

Jessica Stoller-Conrad
A Caltech-led team, using the powerful ALMA telescope in Chile, has analyzed the clouds of gas and dust from some of the earliest galaxies ever observed—1 billion years after the Big Bang.
Celebrating 45 Years at Caltech
06/04/2015

Celebrating 45 Years at Caltech

Kathy Svitil
Robert A. Taylor has worked at Caltech for the last 45 years, most recently in the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (PMA) for the Laser Interferometry Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project. We spoke with Taylor about his four-and-a-half decades at the Institute.
Celebrating 11 Years of CARMA Discoveries
06/03/2015

Celebrating 11 Years of CARMA Discoveries

Ker Than
Known as the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy, or CARMA, the telescopes tucked away on a remote, high-altitude site in the Inyo Mountains formed one of the most powerful millimeter interferometers in the world.
Mike Brown's "Living Textbook"
06/03/2015

Mike Brown's "Living Textbook"

Douglas Smith
Feynman Teaching Award winner Mike Brown ventures into new fields of instruction: the Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, and the "flipped" classroom, which inverts the traditional arrangement of listening to lectures in class and doing assignments at home.
Caltech planetary science professor Mike Brown
Gravitational Waves—Sooner Than Later?
05/26/2015

Gravitational Waves—Sooner Than Later?

Douglas Smith
Built to look for gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space itself that were predicted by Einstein in 1916, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is the most ambitious project ever funded by the National Science Foundation. We talk to two Caltech researchers to learn about how LIGO came to be.
Caltech Astronomers See Supernova Collide with Companion Star
05/20/2015

Caltech Astronomers See Supernova Collide with Companion Star

Allie Akmal
The discovery, made using a robotic observing system, offers new insight into how white dwarfs become Type Ia supernovae.
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