Observations detect hundreds of possible supergiant stars in two nearby galaxies
Using the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), Chinese astronomers have identified nearly 300 ...
Rochester Institute of Technology4y
Galaxy Evolution
The galaxy evolution group at RIT investigates numerous questions related to ... It has long been known that there is a tight correlation between galaxy morphology and local environment (Dressler 1980 ...
Cambridge University Press3y
The Galaxies of the Local Group
It begins with a summary of each member galaxy, as well as those galaxies previously regarded as possible members. The book examines the mass, stability and evolution of the Local Group as a whole and ...
Frontiers3d
Connecting Planetary Nebulae with Their Host Galaxy Stellar Population Properties
Planetary Nebulae (PNe) are emission-line nebulae in a short-lived late stage of stellar evolution for low- to ...
A long, long time ago in a galaxy not so far away: Research unearths clues to conditions of the early universe
"We can use what we know about stellar evolution and what these colors ... The Star Formation History of the Local Group ...
Cambridge University Press10mon
Local Group Cosmology
The galaxies of the Local Group provide the best laboratory in which to investigate these galaxy formation processes because they can be studied with sufficiently high resolution to exhume fossils of ...