Thursday, Feb. 27, 7 - 9 PM: Why are we building a next-generation 30-meter telescope? What are we hoping to detect? Have all your questions answered at our "Cosmic Thursdays" Astronomy Talk! This event is FREE ( RSVP required) and open to the public. Refreshments and a limited number of free parking permits will also...
By Xinnan Du | UCR Physics & Astronomy Department |
INDEPENDENT, UK - Scientists have been left puzzled by a vast "monster" galaxy that mysteriously went dark. The web of stars, known as XMM-2599, existed about 12 billion years ago, in the early days of the universe, when it was only about 1.8 billion years old. It spewed out a vast number of stars in...
University of California, Riverside astronomers Bahram Mobasher and Naveen Reddy are members of a team that has discovered the most distant galaxy ever found. The galaxy is seen as it was just 700 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only about 5 percent of its current age of 13.8 billion years...
