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UCI Earth system science professor is an expert in the ocean carbon cycle

U.N.-sponsored Earth School will help children learn about environment

Findings may change fundamental thinking about star system formation, dynamics

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 […]

Record-breaking donations highlight big year at UCI

Researchers expect more gravitational-wave evidence of collisions in the near future

UCI astronomer James Bullock has been appointed chair of the James Webb Space Telescope users committee. The group, which includes 10 to 14 American, European and Canadian scientists, was established to ensure that the observatory is operated in such a way as to maximize its scientific performance. The JWST, successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, […]

Recent astronomical discoveries confirm UCI researchers’ role as galactic groundbreakers

Irvine, Calif., June 10, 2013 – The least massive galaxy in the known universe has been measured by UC Irvine scientists, clocking in at just 1,000 or so stars with a bit of dark matter holding them together. The findings, made with the world’s most powerful telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory and published today […]

UCI astronomers have modeled how the galaxy’s arms form.