Tag: Milky Way Galaxy
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Heidi Newberg, RPI – The Size of the Galaxy
This universe of ours is pretty big, and it might be bigger than we think. Heidi Newberg, astronomer and physicist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is studying the size of the galaxy. Dr. Heidi Newberg has worked in many areas of astronomy over the course of her career. She did her Ph.D. with the Berkeley Automated…
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RPI’s Heidi Newberg records at WAMC
If there are ripples, then it looks like the number of stars in the (presumed flat) disk drops off quickly, and then farther out where the disk ripples back up it looks like a detached ring of stars appears,” Dr. Heidi Newberg, professor of physics, applied physics, and astronomy at Rensselaer Polytechnic University in Troy,…