Research & Ideas

Lawrence Berkeley Lab releases first part of space survey to general public

For each 15-minute exposure of the deep sky, astronomers plug a thousand optical fibers into a plate that fits at the focal plane of the Sloan Telescope. Each fiber feeds the light of an individual galaxy to BOSS’s advanced spectrograph.
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For each 15-minute exposure of the deep sky, astronomers plug a thousand optical fibers into a plate that fits at the focal plane of the Sloan Telescope. Each fiber feeds the light of an individual galaxy to BOSS’s advanced spectrograph.

BOSS uses the wide-field Sloan telescope located at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico to map the night sky for data on the spectra of distant objects. Read More…

Notes from the Field

Entertainers on stilts at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs amuse visitors.

Berkeley Lab open house draws in curious crowds

A mad scientist on stilts was spotted Saturday morning roaming between the booths at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s annual open house to answer questions from the community. The Berkeley Lab hosted its annual open house Cirque des Sciences on Saturday, where scientists and researchers from the lab displayed their Read More…

Research & Ideas

Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony for Saul Perlmutter

UC Berkeley professor wins Nobel Prize

UC Berkeley Professor of physics Saul Perlmutter has won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Perlmutter, who will share the award with two other scientists, was recognized for his work studying supernovae. Brian Schmidt, an astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University, and Adam Read More…