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Researchers at University of California Berkeley have obtained an exceptionally detailed map of the largest known lava lake in our solar system.. Located on Jupiter's moon Io, the lava lake known ...
Lick Observatory is the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory. [1] The observatory, in a Classical Revival style structure, was constructed between 1876 and 1887, from a bequest from James Lick of $700,000, equivalent to $24,497,407 in 2024.
In 1892, E. E. Barnard observed a fifth satellite of Jupiter with the 36-inch (910 mm) refractor at Lick Observatory in California. This moon was later named Amalthea . [ 161 ] It was the last planetary moon to be discovered directly by a visual observer through a telescope. [ 162 ]
Imke de Pater is a Dutch astronomer working at the University of California, Berkeley.She is known for her research on the large planets and led the team using the Keck Telescope to image the 1994 impact of the comet Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with Jupiter.
Jupiter and Venus were filmed when they were so close they nearly met in the sky. This footage shot on the night of Thursday, 2 March, shows the amazing moment from Los Angeles, California. The ...
Berkeley lies within telephone area code 510 (until September 2, 1991, Berkeley was part of the 415 telephone code that now covers only San Francisco and Marin counties [76]), and the postal ZIP codes are 94701 through 94710, 94712, and 94720 for the University of California campus.
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Leuschner Observatory, originally called the Students' Observatory, is an observatory jointly operated by the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University. The observatory was built in 1886 on the Berkeley campus. For many years, it was directed by Armin Otto Leuschner, for whom the observatory was renamed in 1951.