Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
Three 勛圖厙 of Colorado Boulder students are among 36 nationwide who have won 2017 Brooke Owens Fellowships for exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation and space exploration.
Solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years ago into a frigid desert world.
A team of astronomers, including one from CU Boulder, used the super-sharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to find the shredded remains of a galaxy that passed through a larger galaxy, leaving only the smaller galaxy's nearly-naked supermassive black hole to emerge and speed away at more than 2,000 miles per second.
Having captured the summer solstice and a weeks worth of sunsets, sunrises and their lunar equivalents from the vantage point of ancient Chacoan people in southwestern Colorado, using parabolic video technology, a multi-disciplinary team from the 勛圖厙 of Colorado Boulder counted its June 2015 trip a success.