Vassar Astronomer Colette Salyk Helps Hubble Team Analyze 'Bat Wing'
June 26, 2020
June 26, 2020
POUGHKEEPSIE, New York, June 26 -- Vassar College issued the following news:
Vassar College Assistant Professor of Astronomy Colette Salyk has been scanning the universe for nascent planets throughout her career. So, when a team of scientists at the Space Telescope Science Institute spotted a flapping, "bat-like shadow" of a fledgling star's planet-forming disk that had been captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, they asked Salyk to help them solve the puzzle.
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Vassar College Assistant Professor of Astronomy Colette Salyk has been scanning the universe for nascent planets throughout her career. So, when a team of scientists at the Space Telescope Science Institute spotted a flapping, "bat-like shadow" of a fledgling star's planet-forming disk that had been captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, they asked Salyk to help them solve the puzzle.
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