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Astronomers Determine How Disk Galaxies Evolve So Smoothly | newkerala.com Technology News – New Kerala

Technology News: Astronomers Determine How Disk Galaxies Evolve So Smoothly – Computer simulations are showing astrophysicists how massive clumps of gas within galaxies scatter some stars from their orbits, eventually creating the smooth, exponential fade in …

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Researchers from Iowa State University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and IBM Research have advanced studies they started nearly 10 years ago. They originally focused on how massive clumps in young galaxies affect star orbits and create galaxy disks featuring bright centers fading to dark edges.(As Curtis Struck, an Iowa State professor of physics and astronomy, wrote in a 2013 research summary “In galaxy disks, the scars of a rough childhood, and adolescent blemishes, all smooth away with…

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