Working on ways to update an integral facility, graduate students and professors in the astronomy program at UCLA are actively fund-raising for a building that is becoming increasingly in need of repair. Offering free shows to students every week, the UCLA planetarium has been a valuable tool, educating UCLA students and the surrounding community since […]
Author Archives: Diana Whitaker
Planet gets a new image
On April 29, an international team of astronomers, one of whom is a professor at UCLA, confirmed the first image of a planet outside of our solar system. The giant planet, which is about five times the mass of Jupiter, is gravitationally bound to a brown dwarf, which is a failed star. Both objects, one […]
A dance to remember
A first glance at Robyn Speer, a beautiful 16-year-old from Las Vegas, would never convey the image of a cancer patient. One month ago, she was completely healthy, excitedly making plans for her junior prom. But pangs of fever, clammy, uncontrollably shaking hands and chronic fatigue suddenly struck her. Surprisingly, she still made it to […]