Going Green… On a Galactic Scale!
Our Milky Way seems to be passively evolving towards the red sequence… very efficiently!
New Glossary: Citizen Science Efforts
In astronomy everyone shares the same laboratory, the sky. Astronomers with Ph.Ds use giant telescopes to look at the same sky you can walk outside and look up to. Many amateur astronomers have taken advantage of just that….
Journal Articles in Astronomy
So, you are ready to go beyond our “bites” and dig into the real articles in all their raw glory. Where to begin?
Dissecting a Merger between a Quasar and a ‘Green Valley’ Galaxy
Mergers play an important role in any galaxy’s evolution. A coincidental observation of a quasar and companion galaxy linked by a photoionized gas bridge offers an exclusive look at the merger process at moderate redshift.
A Peek into Pandora
Where can you find ‘ghost’, ‘dark’, ‘stripped’, and ‘bullet’ clusters? The Pandora Cluster, which has become an excellent laboratory for studying the nature of other shady characters in our universe like dark matter.