MARQUETTE, MI - David Wilfred Nault, 81, passed away on March 26, 2024, in Marquette, MI. He was born on October 28, 1942, in Ishpeming, MI. David graduated
1 February 2021
Since its first light in 2006, the high-resolution infrared CRIRES spectrograph on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has made a number of exciting scientific discoveries. The new and improved CRIRES
+, which has now seen first light, will develop the work of its predecessor and search for potentially habitable super-Earth exoplanets.
+, an instrument built by ESO in collaboration with a consortium of European institutes, will search the sky for super-Earths located within the habitable zones of nearby low-mass stars, the range of planetary orbits within which scientists believe a planet can support life. These types of planets are difficult to detect due to their relatively low masses. With CRIRES
The Milky Way primordial history and its fossil findings
Just as archaeologists dig hoping to find traces of the past, an international group of astrophysicists managed to get into the thick cloud of dust around the centre of the Milky Way (also known as the bulge) discovering primordial clumps of gas and stars never found so far. They named this new class of stellar system Bulge Fossil Fragments . A research team led by Francesco Ferraro (Department of Physics and Astronomy Augusto Righi at the University of Bologna and member of the National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF) carried out a study published in Nature Astronomy.
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IMAGE: Panoramic view of the Milky Way (Credit: ESO/S. Brunier) with the location of the two Bulge Fossil Fragments discovered so far (Liller 1 and Terzan 5) highlighted. view more
Credit: F. R. Ferraro / C. Pallanca (University of Bologna)
Just as archaeologists dig hoping to find traces of the past, an international group of astrophysicists managed to get into the thick cloud of dust around the centre of the Milky Way (also known as the bulge) discovering primordial clumps of gas and stars never found so far. They named this new class of stellar system Bulge Fossil Fragments . A research team led by Francesco Ferraro (Department of Physics and Astronomy Augusto Righi at the University of Bologna and member of the National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF) carried out a study published in