University of Michigan: The Quiet Life of Messier 94
June 15, 2022
June 15, 2022
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 15 (TNSres) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:
Just like a murder of crows, a shrewdness of apes and a murmuration of starlings, tightly packed stars of a similar age within the center of a galaxy have a collective name: a bulge.
Most galaxies have bulges at their centers. Depending on their properties--specifically, the kinematics of their stars--the bulges have different names. Stars within classical bulges move . . .
Just like a murder of crows, a shrewdness of apes and a murmuration of starlings, tightly packed stars of a similar age within the center of a galaxy have a collective name: a bulge.
Most galaxies have bulges at their centers. Depending on their properties--specifically, the kinematics of their stars--the bulges have different names. Stars within classical bulges move . . .