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A visualization of a magnetar with tilted accretion disk and energetic polar jets.
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Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully of LCO
A spinning magnetar twists space-time itself, causing the disk of material around it to wobble and produce the ultra-bright flashes of this peculiar kind of supernova.

UCSB researcher bridges the worlds of general relativity and supernova astrophysics

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Moonshot

Shrinking Groundwater

Simulation Versus Observation

Calculated Honors

Materials All-Star
osteoporosis illustration

Bone Deep

Market Solutions to Environmental Problems
Two indigenous populations give UCSB anthropologists a glimpse into how diet — and western eating habits — impact health and wellbeing

Food for Thought

Golden State Splendor

Giant Killers

Damage Undone

A Spectacular Spectroscopy Award
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