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An art installation called Solar Beacon, mounted atop the Golden Gate Bridge towers in May by UC Berkeley space scientists, has been given a one-month extension and will remain operative through September, allowing Bay Area residents to schedule flashes of light from the movable mirrors.
Tag: space science
Robert Lin, UC Berkeley pioneer in experimental space physics, dies at 70
November 21, 2012:
Physicist Robert Peichung Lin, a former director of the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, who designed and built dozens of instruments to study solar flares, the magnetic fields on the surface of the moon and Mars and the plasma environment of Earth, died suddenly of a stroke on Saturday, Nov. 17.
Berkeley astronomers featured tonight in KQED Quest program’Black Holes’
September 26, 2012:
UC Berkeley astronomer Alex Filippenko joins William Craig and other NuSTAR satellite scientists tonight on the KQED Quest program “Black Holes: Objects of Attraction,” airing locally at 7:30 p.m. Filippenko explains the physics of black holes, while Craig and NuSTAR principal investigator Fiona Harrison of Caltech explain how the x-ray satellite will help solve black hole mysteries.
CINEMA among tiny CubeSats to be launched Aug. 2
July 31, 2012:
CINEMA, a tiny nanosatellite designed and built by students at UC Berkeley, is scheduled for launch on Aug. 2. Once in Earth orbit, it will monitor the movement of charged particles in the atmosphere that can disrupt power grids on the ground.
Pioneering space physicist Kinsey Anderson has died at 85
June 29, 2012:
Kinsey A. Anderson, a professor emeritus of physics and an international leader in the field now called space physics, died June 11, 2012, at the age of 85.
