http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Thu, 23 May 2013 22:42:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/04/explosion-of-galaxy-formation-lit-up-early-universe/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/04/explosion-of-galaxy-formation-lit-up-early-universe/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:30:54 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32782 The universe was dark until the first stars began to form, but the universe really lit up once massive hydrogen clouds began birthing galaxies of stars. A new study by postdocs Oliver Zahn and Christian Reichardt, using data from the South Pole Telescope, finds that this period, called the Epoch of Reionization, was later and more explosive than thought.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/04/explosion-of-galaxy-formation-lit-up-early-universe/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/01/gruber-cosmology-prize-honors-dark-matter-astronomers/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/01/gruber-cosmology-prize-honors-dark-matter-astronomers/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:15:32 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=12329 UC Berkeley astronomer Marc Davis will share with three other astronomers the 2011 Cosmology Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, the foundation announced Wednesday.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/01/gruber-cosmology-prize-honors-dark-matter-astronomers/feed/ 0