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