Tag: early galaxies

• The week in review (October 20-26)

  I had a wonderful time at GeekGirlCon; thanks again to Dr. Rubidium, AKA Nick Fury, for putting together the DIY Science Zone, and to everyone who made it a great event. I have a more formal wrap-up post in the works, but in the meantime, have some science writing. The river of spacetime (Galileo’s Pendulum):…

  Matthew R. Francis

  October 26, 2013

  Ars Technica, Galileo’s Pendulum, Universe Today, Writing for Other Sites

  black holes, cosmology, early galaxies, general relativity, history of science, science communication

• In which I get a little fanboyish about ALMA

  I’m a theoretical physicist by training and inclination, but I’m not immune to awesome experiments or observatories. (Ahem.) Case in point: the new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. This array of 66 telescopes in the high Atacama Desert is particularly well suited to hunt for the earliest galaxies and stars in the Universe.…

  Matthew R. Francis

  March 14, 2013

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  cosmology, early galaxies, millimeter astronomy

• Halo star haze helps hidden galaxies look huge

  (Not fully alliterative, but it’s the best I can do after driving 6 hours today.) The halos of galaxies are best known for harboring dark matter, but they also contain stars. Only a tiny fraction of the total stars in a galaxy are in the halo, so usually they’re hard to spot, but astronomers are…

  Matthew R. Francis

  October 24, 2012

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  cosmology, early galaxies, infrared astronomy