UC Berkeley will manage $300 million NASA mission to map the UV universe

New Caltech-led Mission Will Study Ultraviolet Sky, Stars, Stellar Explosions

UC Berkeley astronomer Daniel Weisz joins Caltech’s Fiona Harrison and other leaders of the UVEX team in explaining the importance of the planned ultraviolet telescope to our understanding of galaxies, stars and stellar explosions. Video courtsy of Caltech.

March 25, 2024

UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX), led by Caltech and managed by UC Berkeley, is expected to launch in 2030

An orbiting space telescope approved by NASA last month and scheduled for launch in 2030 will conduct the first all-sky survey of ultraviolet (UV) sources in the cosmos, providing valuable information on how galaxies and stars evolve, both today and in the distant past.

The $300 million satellite mission, called UVEX (UltraViolet EXplorer), will be managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley. The mission’s principal investigator is Fiona Harrison, a UC Berkeley Ph.D. recipient who is a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.

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