Tag: Christopher L. Martin

  • Science & Tech

    South Pole telescope maps heart of Milky Way

    Research results obtained by a team of astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) led by Chris Martin and Antony Stark suggest that we are headed for some celestial fireworks. Sometime in the next 300 million years, the galactic center will experience a dramatic burst of star formation and will shine with the light…

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  • Science & Tech

    South Pole telescope sees origin of starbursts

    Astronomers have seen how star formation occurs in the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy by using a telescope based at the South Pole. The observations contribute to our knowledge of how stars form in “bursts” near the center of the galaxy at roughly 500-million-year intervals. The scientists were able to show that a…

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