The star(s) of the show today have been those making up the Milky Way, the structure of which has been revealed like never before by the results of a survey conducted by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The result is currently displayed right across the exhibition hall, as you can see in the Universe Today report. [...]
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Imagine being in our solar system, standing just where the Earth is now, roughly four and a half billion years ago. Around you would be the detritus of star formation, left over material forming a protoplanetary disk from which the planets are coalescing. Understanding just how this disk of dust and gas became the eight [...]
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As we’ve gone through the sessions here about Astronomy and New Media (aka the internet), the example I keep returning to (apart from Galaxy Zoo) is Phoenix’s use of the internet. The way they’ve distributed images and talked to the public has been exemplary, and the most fun example of this is their use of [...]
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I wrote yesterday about the somewhat surprising link that’s been discovered between the tightness of a galaxy’s spiral arms (the angle at which they uncurl) and the size of the black hole that lurks in their centre. I managed to catch up with Marc Seigar, and the interview is now up on Youtube
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