Tag: interstellar gas

• The Solar System boundary and the week in review (September 8-14)

  ‘Twas a busy week! High-resolution observations show how black hole jets churn galactic gas (Ars Technica): One portion of my PhD thesis involved galactic feedback. That’s the process by which jets from black holes at the center of galaxies push material away, potentially affecting star formation and other activity. This article addressed the observation of…

  Matthew R. Francis

  September 14, 2013

  Ars Technica, Double X Science, Galileo’s Pendulum, Writing for Other Sites

  dark matter, interstellar gas, multiverse, Phobos, Sun, supermassive black holes, the Moon, Voyager 1

• The week in review (September 1-7)

  The last week was especially busy because I attended the launch of the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. I will have a lot to say about that launch, LADEE, and related topics later on, but suffice to say it was a great experience — increased because it was…

  Matthew R. Francis

  September 8, 2013

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

  interstellar gas, LADEE, NASA, Solar System, the Moon