Hot Halo Find Confirms Theory
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected an extensive halo of hot gas around the spiral galaxy known as NGC 5746.…
Smash-Up Derby A Universal Pastime
Galactic collisions are common phenomena, according to Yale astronomer, Pieter van Dokkum, who used hundreds of images from two of…
Supercomputer To Simulate Galactic Evolution
David Merritt, a professor of physics at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), has just finished putting together one of…