The Haunting of Boötes’ Backyard
In today’s bite, find out what’s haunting the constellation Boötes and how it can revolutionize our understanding of the smallest galaxies!
In today’s bite, find out what’s haunting the constellation Boötes and how it can revolutionize our understanding of the smallest galaxies!
Palladino et al. find 13 new hypervelocity star candidates in the galaxy and find they probably do not originate from the center of the galaxy.
It is written in The Standard Lore of Astronomy – a leather-bound book professors keep under their desks – that stars in the disks of spiral galaxies have a bimodal distribution of scale heights. Today we will be discussing a paper that comes to the conclusion that the notion of a thick disk and a thin disk is actually a poor approximation to the true distribution of disk stars.