Starry surprise in the bulge: encounter of a halo passerby
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 12:31
in Astronomy & Space
A team led by Andrea Kunder from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) measured the velocity of a sample of 100 old RR Lyrae stars thought to reside in the Galactic bulge, the central group of stars found in most Galaxies.