Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Discovered
(2012-02-08)
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UCLA astronomer Michael Rich led a team which discovered "a previously unknown companion to the nearby galaxy NGC 4449." Their research is being published Thursday, February 9 in Nature.
UCLA Press Release
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Crafoord Prize Awarded to Andrea Ghez
(2012-01-18)
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Professor Andrea Ghez is the recipient of the Crafoord Prize in Astronomy in 2012, shared with Reinhard Genzel, "for their observations of the stars orbiting the galactic centre, indicating the presence of a supermassive black hole."
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The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA) Survey
(2012-01-04)
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The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA) survey is featured on the NOAO website, and was conceived by Dr. Michael Rich of UCLA. See a recent paper by Kunder et al. for their results.
See the NOAO press release
here.
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