Barr Leadership Chair Boosts Caltech Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution
Gift from alumnus and family offers flexible funding for multidisciplinary studies of planets familiar and far away.
Comparative Planetary Evolution
The Caltech Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution (3CPE) brings together perspectives and methodologies from astronomy, geology, and biology to explore how planetary systems and their biospheres form and evolve. Your investment will promote innovative collaborations and support researchers as they investigate the origins of life on Earth, explore habitable environments on Mars, simulate and map Jupiter’s icy moons, and build cutting-edge instruments to search for and explore habitable planets beyond the solar system. To start a conversation about your potential gift, email give@caltech.edu or call (626) 395-4863.
Out-of-This-World Research Gets a Philanthropic Boost
Members of the Space Innovation Council support astronomy and planetary science research at Caltech and JPL.
On Different Wavelengths
Whether it is wavelengths, perspectives, or strategies, Caltech planetary scientist Katherine de Kleer prefers to settle on more than just one.
In Search of Alien Planets
Erik Petigura marvels at how far his field of astronomy has come since his childhood in the early 1990s, when he first became hooked on science after watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series.
There’s Something in the Air (Out There)
HD 187123 b is Cam Buzard’s favorite planet. About 160 light years away in the constellation Cygnus, it circles a star about as massive as our sun—only so close that a year flies by in three days. It weighs more than 150 Earths and sizzles at about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Caltech Effect: November 2017
In this issue of The Caltech Effect, we explore the notion of familial ties across many dimensions—generations, labs, even the Milky Way.
The Neutron Dance
Caltech geochemist John Eiler aims to reveal “the genetics of everything”—the history of each molecule in the natural world as written in its isotopic structure. What he finds out could have implications for ventures ranging from the study of meteorites to medical diagnosis and treatment.