Announcements Research Resources Directory Links Classes Visitor Info Intranet (restricted) Grad Program Division News: Undergrad Program Astronomers Find Remains of Planet Collision (2008-09-24) A group of astronomers, among them UCLA's Ben Zuckerman, have studied the dust disk of the close binary star BD+20 307 and believe it to be formed within the past few hundred thousand years. This dust is believed to be the result of the collision of planets in the system. More information MacArthur Foundation Awards Andrea Ghez (2008-09-23) UCLA Astronomer Andrea Ghez is among the 25 winners of the MacArthur Foundation Award. She has used speckle imaging and adaptive optics to study the conditions near the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. More information (LA Times) More information (UCLA) MacArthur Foundation site UCLA Professors Named Up-and-coming Astronomers by Astronomy.com. (2008-08-01) In the August 2008 issue of Astronomy.com, Drs. Alice Shapley and Steve Furlanetto were named as two of the top ten rising stars in astronomy. More information More Division News... Home Announcements Research Resources Directory Links Classes Visitor Info Grad Program Undergrad Program Intranet Feedback & contact information webmaster[at]astro.ucla.edu. Physics and Astronomy Building 430 Portola Plaza, Box 951547 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547 The Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics (this site) is part of the Department of Physics & Astronomy, one of several Physical Sciences departments in the College of Letters & Sciences at UCLA, the Los Angeles campus of the University of California system.