Science from a 69-year-old telescope
JAN 06, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023983
cleveland.com : Using a 69-year-old Cleveland-built telescope that’s been refurbished with the help of refrigerator magnets and the black velvet found in Elvis paintings, astronomers are looking for the faint, telltale glow of orphaned stars unleashed by galactic impacts. Like crash investigators, they’re probing the collisions’ aftermath to decipher how and when clusters form, and what happens within their chaotic boundaries. “What we’re looking for is to understand how the cluster came together,” said Case Western Reserve University astronomy department chairman Chris Mihos , who presented new results from the team’s Virgo observations at this week’s annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC.
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