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Archives for January 2019

Over 1,000 Attend Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse Viewing, Lecture

January 22, 2019 by Kevork N. ABAZAJIAN

Over 1,000 people were estimated to have attended the viewing of the Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse at UC Irvine, preceded by a lecture on “The 25 Billion Planets in Our Galaxy,” by Prof. Paul Robertson. The moon was closer than average: “Super;” it was eclipsed by the Earth giving it a reddish hue: “Blood;” and the “Wolf Moon” was the first full moon of the New Year, a name given by Native Americans according to the Farmer’s Almanac.

 

 

 

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New Simulations Aim to Solve Twenty-Year Old Galaxy Mystery

January 9, 2019 by Kevork N. ABAZAJIAN

Graduate student Tyler Kelley, part of the UC Irvine Cosmology Center, led the run and analysis the highest resolution simulations of galaxy formation around our own Milky Way galaxy, showing that a long unsolved problem of why there are not more galaxies around our Milky Way Galaxy. Now, there are a bit too few galaxies, suggesting that our understanding of how galaxies get built is still somewhat incomplete. This result was presented in this paper, and covered by Quanta Magazine.

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