Cosmic Suburbia
Young city dwellers on Earth aren't the only ones rushing to suburbia to start families. New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that galaxies also prefer to breed stars in the cosmic suburbs.
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03.02.06 Origins of OrganicsRobert Hurt talks to Yanling Wu about her studies of blue compact dwarf galaxies, and what they tell us about the ori... |
02.15.06 Finding Crystals in Colliding GalaxiesRobert Hurt interviews Dr. Henrik Spoon about a first in extragalactic astronomy: the detection of delicate crystals ... |
01.11.06 Survivors Around a Dead StarWhitney Clavin speaks with Dr. Marc Kuchner, who has recently discovered signs of surviving comets around a star that... |
12.14.05 Alien Asteroid BeltsRobert Hurt speaks with Dr. Dean Hines by phone about the discovery of an asteroid belt similar to our own around a v... |
12.08.05 High School Students Visit SpitzerA teacher and three high school students from the Phillips Exeter Academy visit the Spitzer Science Center, and discu... |
11.09.05 The Mountains of CreationGay Hill talks to Dr. Lori Allen about the aesthetics and science behind the "Mountains of Creation," a beautiful new... |
10.27.05 Tale of the Tadpole GalaxyDr. Tom Jarrett discusses new images of the Tadpole galaxy from NASA's SWIRE mission, and what they may tell us about... |
10.13.05 Amazing AndromedaObservations of our sister galaxy Andromeda reveal a new side to this Milky Way neighbor. Dr. Karl Gordon and Dr. Geo... |
10.06.05 Cotton Candy CometsDr. Michelle Thaller discusses new insights into the nature of comets gained from observations by Spitzer and other o... |
09.29.05 What's a Big Galaxy Doing in the Baby Universe?Astronomers unexpectedly discover that some very massive mature galaxies were already in place only one billion years... |
09.15.05 Do Planets Sprout Like Wildflowers?New Spitzer evidence indicates that some gas giants may have grown in less than one million years, faster than previo... |
09.01.05 Spitzer Turns TwoNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope celebrates its second anniversary of uncovering hidden universes of warm stellar embry... |
08.16.05 Finding Hidden Black HolesDr. Mark Lacy discusses a population of giant black holes, or quasars, in distant galaxies that, until recent Spitzer... |
08.03.05 Organic Molecules in the Early UniverseDr. Lin Yan discusses her recent discovery of organic molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (or PAHs) in ... |
