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Search the Skies with Jill Tarter

Astronomer Dr. Jill Tarter is Director of the Institute's Center for SETI Research and also holder of the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI. She is one of the few researchers to have devoted her career to hunting for signs of sentient beings elsewhere, and there are few aspects of this field that have not been affected by her work. Read more


Friday, December 19, 2008 10:47:00 AM

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SETI's Large-Scale Telescope Scans the Skies

CNET News
December 12, 2008


Friday, December 12, 2008 2:25:24 PM

Rock and Roil: Meteorites Hitting Early Earth's Oceans May Have Helped Spawn Life
Scientific American
December 7, 2008

Monday, December 08, 2008 2:19:33 PM

A Mirror Image

Astronomy
January 2009

Mark Showalter's images of the rings of Uranus accompany this story.


Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:30:55 AM

Probing the Cosmos: Is Anybody Out There?
CNN
November 26, 2008

Thursday, November 27, 2008 10:52:29 AM

When Intelligent and Natural Design Collide
WIRED Science
November 26, 2008

Thursday, November 27, 2008 10:50:45 AM

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Research News

Closest Planetary System Hosts Two Asteroid Belts

NASA/JPL News on Dana Backman's upcoming paper on asteriod belts around Epsilon Eridani.




New images Show Seasons on Uranus

Near-infrared images from the Keck II telescope show the planet Uranus in 2005 (left), with the rings at an angle of 8 degrees, and at equinox in 2007 (right pair), with the planet’s ring system edge-on. In all images, the south pole is at the left and the equator is directly below the rings. Uranus, which has an 84-year orbit around the sun, has seasons that last twenty-one years. With the aid of new imaging technologies and telescopes, scientists had their best chance to observe the change of seasons on the distant planet and to look for seasonal effects on some of the solar system’s most mysterious weather features.

SETI Institute scientists Kathy Rages and Mark Showalter are members of a team studying new Keck II telescope images of Uranus to probe the seasonal dynamics of Uranus.  Read the article from the University of Wisconsin.




Sharper Jupiter Images from Next-Generation Adaptive Optics


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A two-hour observation of Jupiter using an improved technique to remove atmospheric blur has produced the sharpest whole-planet picture ever taken from the ground, according to astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, the SETI Institute (Franck Marchis), and the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

UC Berkeley Press Release

ESO Press Release




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