UCI Professor Asantha Cooray Published in Nature International Weekly Journal of Science

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Friday, March 1, 2013

UCI Professor Asantha Cooray Published in Nature International Weekly Journal of Science

An explanation has been proposed for the observed excess of cosmic light at infrared wavelengths.

It invokes stars that are cast into the dark-matter haloes of their parent galaxies during powerful galaxy collisions. See Letter p.514

Additional Links:

News and Views introduction from Andrea Ferrara
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v490/n7421/full/490494a.html

NASA, UCI and UCLA press releases

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/news/spitzer20121024.html

http://today.uci.edu/news/2012/10/nr_asantha_121024.php

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/dark-matter-halos-may-contain-239960.aspx

MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49538107

Italy
http://www.media.inaf.it/2012/10/24/stelle-perdute-nella-materia-oscura/

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