What happens when you take a dwarf galaxy and stretch it out to the size of the Milky Way? And how do these strange galaxies shut down star formation? Today’s authors search for ultra-diffuse galaxies which have recently stopped forming stars to find an answer.
Do galaxies shut off star formation from the inside-out or the outside-in? And what does that tell us about their history?
How is a galaxy like a bathtub? Today’s authors use quasars to light up the gas around galaxies.
Today we interview Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, the Senior Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope at NASA and a plenary speaker at #AAS246
Today we interview Professor Dimitri Mawet, the David Morrisroe Professor of Astronomy at Caltech, a Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a plenary speaker at #AAS246