Congratulations to alumna Andrea Ghez (MS ’89, PhD ’93) on winning the 2020 #NobelPrize in #Physics. Ghez shares half of this year’s prize with Reinhard Genzel “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.”

This beautiful animation from Andrea Ghez's group at UCLA traces the motion of stars closest to our Galaxy's central black hole over 24 years. Persistent work from an entire team that teaches us new things about black holes and provides precise measurements of general relativity.

Please do more than scan the headline. Read and share! This is something with which we ALL must grapple. nytimes.com/2020/10/06/us/…

Simulation shows complex gas flows participating in formation of Milky Way-like galaxy, as seen in FIRE simulations Face-on(left) &edge(right) views Royal Astronomical Society Credit: Philip Hopkins #astronomy #space #EarthScience #STEM #physics #universe

Sadly for Caltech, Ernie is shutting down. He has been serving Caltech for more than 30 years! If the urge strikes you, contribute to this appreciation fund! Ernie's Al Fresco Appreciation gofundme.com/f/ernie039s-al…

Very interesting results from Jenna Samuel -- and more theory on why the LMC group might make the Milky Way special

Always with the best titles!

Very excited about the STARFORGE simulations, pushing the boundaries of what we can simulate with star formation led by postdocs @MikeGrudic, David Guszejnov and Prof. Stella Offner. Methods (arxiv.org/abs/2010.11254) & first results on jets (arxiv.org/abs/2010.11249) just out!

Amazing!

Please distribute, and consider applying if you're eligible and looking for summer research opportunities. I'm always happy to chat with interested students if you have questions!

Hi everyone, I'm on the co-organizers of Black In Astro ™ and we are working on the website and are looking for Black folks in the space related fields for our profiles section on the site. #BlackInAstro

We have added the matches from UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences and UCI Grad Division and have now passed our goal. You can STILL give though and the awards still go to our awesome Latinx students in memory of José Flores Velázquez, PhD student lost too soon zotfunder.give.uci.edu/project/25153

Daughter checking out our awesome Caltech Biard lecture from the incredible Risa Wechsler. So proud!

#paperday! (arxiv.org/abs/2109.05034) FIRE dwarfs with young stellar disks also form old + round + in-situ stellar halos, like observations (bit.ly/2XlFO3o) -- but many FIRE dwarfs remain disk-less at z=0. See thread below, but first: many thanks to coauthors [1/4]

Este lunes, nuestros amigos de Caltech Astro Outreach realizarán un evento en español de "Astronomía en el Bar - Los Ángeles" sobre el telescopio JWST. ¡No se lo pierdan! youtube.com/watch?v=pROtN3…