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Physicists from around the country converged at UC Santa Barbara for two days of talks and camaraderie recently in memory of esteemed physicist Professor

Type Ia supernovas are astronomers’ best tools for measuring cosmic distances. In a first, researchers recreated one on a supercomputer to learn how they form.

Prior to the Munger Hall project, UCSB spent years developing a different student residence, an apartment complex known as Mesa Verde.

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at UC Santa Barbara is hosting a new virtual series called The Art of Doing Science. KITP is a world

Researchers have used "asteroseismology" to examine the hidden mixing processes inside massive stars, known as the chemical factories of the universe.

University of California - Santa Barbara Astronomers commonly refer to massive stars as the chemical factories of the Universe. They generally end their lives in spectacular supernovae, events that forge many of the elements on the periodic table. How elemental nuclei mix within these enormous stars has a major impact on our understanding of their evolution prior to their explosion. It also represents the largest uncertainty for scientists studying their structure and evolution. A team of astro...

New Research Reveals Hidden Processes at Work in Hearts of Large Stars Astronomers commonly refer to massive stars as chemical factories of Universe. Image Credit: Share Email Astronomers commonly refer to massive stars as the chemical factories of the Universe. They generally end their lives in spectacular supernovae, events that forge many of the elements on the periodic table. How elemental nuclei mix within these enormous stars has a major impact on our understanding of their evolution pri...

Housing and Development Newsletter These restrictions, driven purely by his own interests and desires, laid the foundation for a program that could be used by researchers around the world without a huge investment. “You can run it on a 4 GB laptop,” Paxton said. MESA uses a simple set of physics equations to model stars as spherical shells. Since spheres are symmetrical, the program can essentially use a 1-dimensional model to simulate a 3-dimensional object, greatly simplifying computation...