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What Are Astronomers Doing?
Projects
Observing projects scheduled at McDonald Observatory for the week of March 8:
Catching Supernovae Early Sometimes events happen in the night sky that astronomers can’t predict. Phenomena like supernova explosions or gamma-ray bursts occur in random parts of the sky at irregular times, making them very difficult to observe. But it can be done! More »
| Looking for Galactic Streams Small galaxies, called dwarf galaxies, frequently orbit larger galaxies like our Milky Way. Sometimes these dwarf galaxies get pulled into the larger galaxies. This creates tidal streams of stars, which looks like streaks surrounding the galaxy. More »
| NASA Astronomer of the Week: Neal Evans University of Texas astronomer Neal Evans led one of five large Legacy Science Projects with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. While his team has finished taking its massive amounts of data, they continue to analyze it and come up with new discoveries. More »
| Using ‘An Old Pocket Watch’ to Trace Dark Matter University of Texas astronomer Don Winget and his colleagues are about to go one step closer to the solution to one of the biggest mysteries in space today: the identity of dark matter. But the problem with dark matter, Don says, is that it’s, well, dark. He's using a unique property of some special white dwarf stars in a new type of dark matter experiment. More »
|  This program is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant AST 0227870. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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