Meet Shelley Wright, UC San Diego Astrophysicist
Wright’s work includes the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. She chats with UC San Diego Magazine about how this work engages with people’s fascination with the universe.
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Lone Star State: Tracking a Low-Mass Star as it Speeds Across the Milky Way
A team of astronomers, led by Adam Burgasser, and citizen scientists have discovered a rare hypervelocity L subdwarf star racing through the Milky Way. More remarkably, this star may be on a trajectory that causes it to leave the Milky Way altogether.
UC San Diego-Led Science Teams Selected as Finalists for NASA Science Missions to Understand Our Changing Climate
Two teams led by scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography are among four selected by NASA to put forward concept studies for future satellite missions to help better understand how our planet is responding to climate change.
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The Universe’s Oldest Light May Be Twisted — and There’s a New Way to Test It
Discover Magazine, September 29
UCSD researcher wins America’s oldest science prize
KPBS, August 11
Neptune May Have Once Witnessed a Lunar Massacre That Turned Its Original Moons ‘Inside Out’
Smithsonian Magazine, August 5
Space-Grown Organoids and Proteomics Advance Human Disease Research
Technology Networks, July 17
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