Nearby satellite galaxies don’t fit standard model June 23, 2014Structure, behavior better explained by galaxy collisions Satellite dwarf galaxies at the edges of the Milky Way and...Featured·
Maryland professor to discuss mysteries of black holes at Frontiers of Astronomy lecture March 4, 2014Cole Miller, professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland, will present the fourth installment of the 2013-2014...Campus UpdatesEvents·
Stanford University physics professor to give next Frontiers of Astronomy lecture November 13, 2013The 2013-14 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series will continue with a talk by Risa Wechsler, associate professor in...Campus UpdatesEvents·
Alternative hypothesis, MOND, predicts dwarf galaxy feature prior to observations September 23, 2013A modified law of gravity correctly predicted, in advance of the observations, the velocity dispersion—the average speed of...Featured·
Nearby dwarf galaxy, possible protogalaxy discovered January 22, 2013Peering deep into the dim edges of a distorted pinwheel galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great...Featured·