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Skip to content UCLA Institute for Planets and Exoplanets Menu About Overview Visitor Information FAQ Contact Us Giving Academics Overview Prospective Students Course Listing Opportunities Media Image Gallery Videos Teaching & Instruction News Latest News UCLA Planets Magazine Personnel Faculty Researchers/Postdocs Graduate Students Staff Visiting Scientists Recent Graduates Research Overview Research Areas Space Missions Laboratories & Facilities Publications Awards & Honors Search Scroll down to content Posts Posted on January 21, 2020 The Winter 2020 UCLA Planetary Science Seminar Guest Speaker Schedule Fridays from 12 – 1 PM in UCLA’s Geology Building (Room 3-853) unless otherwise specified here: https://epss.ucla.edu/seminars/planetary-science-seminar/winter-2020/ Jan. 10, 2020: David Page (UCLA) – Snowball Mars Abstract: TBA Jan. 17, 2020: Max Guenther (MIT) – Stellar Flares and Habitable (?) M-dwarf Worlds with TESS Abstract: Finding and characterizing small exoplanets transiting small stars naturally poses the question of their habitability. A major contributing factor to this might be stellar flares, originating from powerful magnetic reconnection events on the star. While too powerful flaring can erode or sterilize exoplanets’ atmospheres and diminish their habitability, a minimum flare frequency and energy might be required for the genesis of life around M-dwarfs in first place. Here, I will first highlight our TESS study of stellar flares and our search for exoplanets transiting these stars, linking our findings to prebiotic chemistry and ozone sterilization. We already identified thousands of flaring stars, including many young, rapidly rotating M-dwarfs, some showing superflares with over 30x brightness increase in white light. Further, I will discuss a particularly interesting, newly discovered system: a super-Earth and two sub-Neptunes transiting the bright and nearby M-dwarf TOI-270, which is optimally suited to study the ‘missing link’ between planets on either side of the radius gap. With upcoming TESS sectors, stellar flare studies and new exoplanet discoveries will ultimately aid in defining criteria for exoplanet habitability. Jan. 24, 2020: Kathryn Stack-Morgan (JPL) – Mars 2020 Abstract: TBA Jan. 31, 2020: Yinjuan Ma (UCLA) – Maven Results Abstract: TBA Feb. 07, 2020: TBD – TBD Abstract: TBD Feb. 14, 2020: Siyi Xu (Gemini Observatory) – Exoplanets Abstract: TBA Feb. 21, 2020: Ariel Graykowski and Francisco Spaulding-Astudillo (UCLA) – Student Talks Abstract(s): Both TBA Feb. 28, 2020: James Owen (Imperial College, London) – Exoplanets Abstract: TBA Mar. 06, 2020: Taylor Dorn and Dave Milewski (UCLA) – Student Talks Abstract(s): Both TBA Mar. 13, 2020: LPSC Roundup Abstract(s): TBA Posted on December 31, 2019 December 31, 2019 Check Out 26 Fascinating Breakthroughs from 2019 in Space (with 4 in Solar System Science that include 3 from UCLA Scientists!) With 2019 being very exciting in new discoveries and breakthroughs in astronomy, this story from Business Insider outlines the 26 most fascinating breakthroughs. Of those 26, two come from UCLA Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Department Professor Dr. David Jewitt on taking images and performing studies of the first ever interstellar comet to visit our Solar System as well as former iPLEX Speaker, Dr. Scott Sheppard and Dr. David Jewitt leading observing teams to put the number of Saturn’s Moons at 82 . Next is Professor Marco Velli, the observatory scientist on NASA’s Parker Solar Probe which found reversals of the Sun’s magnetic field at unprecedented detail, and finally, the Mars 2020 Rover which has completed driving tests and is about to be sent off to Mars, of which, Dr. David Paige is the Deputy PI of the RIMFAX instrument , which is a ground-penetrating radar that will study underground layers of rock and ice on the Martian surface! (This story appears in Business Insider and has been reprinted below) The biggest breakthroughs in space in 2019, from the farthest object ever visited to the first photo of a black hole An artist’s illustration of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the sun. NASA Morgan McFall-Johnsen Dec 26, 2019, 7:37 AM Scientists made dozens of exciting new discoveries in space this year. Unprecedented photos revealed the far side of the moon , the first black hole was captured on camera, and astronomers spotted a comet from another star system . Spacecraft also ventured to new destinations, diving through the sun’s atmosphere , landing on an asteroid , and sending back data from interstellar space . These are the 26 biggest space breakthroughs of 2019. This year was full of astronomical breakthroughs in space. Photos captured phenomena nobody had ever seen before. Ambitious spacecraft revealed new secrets about the sun and the edges of our solar system . Astronomers spotted the brightest light in the universe, found new planets circling distant stars, and detected a collision between a black hole and a neutron star that warped the fabric of space-time. In our own solar system, scientists also discovered new moons and evidence of violent collisions from the past . Here are the 26 biggest discoveries and achievements in space from 2019. On New Year’s Day, NASA’s New Horizons probe snapped unprecedented photos of the most distant object any spacecraft has ever visited. New Horizons’ former best view (left) of Arrokoth next to the most detailed version yet (right). NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI After New Horizons flew past Pluto in July 2015 , its long journey to the edge of our solar system took it to a distant space rock nicknamed Arrokoth. The probe snapped hundreds of photographs as it flew by the space rock at 32,200 miles per hour on New Year’s Day. Arrokoth, which was previously nicknamed “Ultima Thule,” is more than 4 billion miles from Earth. Just a few days later, China landed on the far side of the moon — the first time humanity had ever achieved that feat. China’s Chang’e 4 moon lander reached the moon’s far side on January 3, 2019. The mission’s Yutu 2 rover took this photo. CNSA/CLEP On January 3, the Chang’e 4 mission touched down on the side of the moon we can’t see from Earth. The spacecraft sent back the first photos ever taken from that part of the moon’s surface. It turned out to be a year of photographic firsts. Researchers stitched together 7,500 photos taken over 16 years by the Hubble Space Telescope. The result was this unprecedented mosaic of the deep universe. Astronomers developed a mosaic of the distant universe, called the Hubble Legacy Field, that documents 16 years of observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Whitaker (University of Connecticut), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), P. Oesch (University of Geneva), and the Hubble Legacy Field team. The image above, published in May, contains about 265,000 visible galaxies crammed into a region smaller than the moon’s apparent size in the sky. The light from some of those galaxies comes from 13.3 billion years years ago, just 500 million years after the Big Bang. “No image will surpass this one until future space telescopes like James Webb are launched,” Garth Illingworth , an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said in a press release . A worldwide team of scientists also released the first photo ever taken of a black hole. The first image of a black hole, taken using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87. Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration The unprecedented photo , published in April, shows the supermassive black hole at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy, which is about 54 million light-years away from Earth. The black hole’s mass is equivalent to 6.5 billion suns. Scientists struggled for decades to capture a black hole on camera, since black holes distort space-time, ensuring that nothing can break free of their gravitational pull — ev...