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Astronomer Sandra Faber
Local stargazer studies galactic history through the Earth's most powerful telescopes
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Dr. Sandra Faber, a UC-Santa Cruz astronomer, has got her eyes trained back in time. In the beginning--that is the very, very, very beginning of absolutely everything, including the event that's since been dubbed the Big Bang--the entire known universe was hot and dense. About 1027 degrees Kelvin, to be exact, and weighing about 1096 grams per cubic centimeter. But that's only the first 10-35 seconds. Between then and 10-32 seconds, a little less than a millionth of a millionth of a second about 18 billion years ago, what's now called the universe expanded by 1060, rippling out into the vacuum of what could only be called space. Then, for the next two or three billion years, nothing but darkness. Only then did the first stars start to shine. Dr. Faber keeps busy juggling several different projects at any given time--recently, she helped analyze and correct the faults in the Hubble Space Telescope--but as a researcher, she's spent most of her career as a cosmologist studying galaxy formation. That's what's taken her back to those first tiny fractions of a second: the Big Bang.
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Astronomer Sandra Faber studies galactic history
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