Articles from May 2018

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First Coronal Loop Images from Another Star

Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Graduate student Bill Peterson, along with Professor Robert Mutel and colleagues from NRAO and ETH Zurich, have made the first images of a coronal loop structure on a star other than the Sun.

Rare Merger Illuminates Origin of 'Red and Dead’ Galaxies

Professor Hai Fu led an international team of astronomers in the discovery of a rare encounter between two massive and gas-rich galaxies in a survey from the Herschel telescope.