NASA has selected UCI astrophysicist Asantha Cooray as community chair of a study group to design and set requirements for a possible successor to the James Webb Space Telescope. The group, which includes scientists and engineers from about 30 leading international research institutions and space agencies, will work over the next three years toward a […]
Asantha Cooray, associate professor of physics & astronomy at UC Irvine, has been awarded the title of Chancellor’s Fellow. This…
Infrared emissions reveal secrets invisible with optical wavelength observations
UCI astrophysicist faces the universe’s darkness with help from those around her and from the stars above her
UCI’s Frederick Reines Hall is home to happy astronomers after this week’s announcement of NASA’s selection of the new Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer mission. The two-year, $242 million SPHEREx is targeted to launch in 2023. Asantha Cooray, UCI professor of physics & astronomy, will head one […]
Hubble Space Telescope data, new statistical method instrumental to research project
UC Irvine cosmologist Asantha Cooray is co-author of new findings to be published Nov. 7 in the prestigious journal Science.
Recent astronomical discoveries confirm UCI researchers’ role as galactic groundbreakers
Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, according to UC Irvine-led research published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Herschel telescope proves surprisingly adept at detecting their deflected light.