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The inner life of boring galaxies

Anne-Marie Weijmans peers beyond the visible surface of the most bland galaxies: the elliptical ones.

This reveals their inner nature, and the invisible stuff called dark matter (for lack of a better understanding).

Dunlap Astro Portrait #03:

Planets caught between a robot and Hawaii

A robotic telescope does the hard work of looking for planets around 100,000 of the tiniest — and most common — stars in our galaxy.

When the robot is onto something, Nick Law flies out to Hawaii… not to celebrate, but to have a closer look.

Dunlap Astro Portrait #02:

The telescope is not enough

On its own, a telescope yields beautiful images to look at, but to do science, you need to turn these into data.

Suresh Sivanandam designs and tests scientific instruments that get hooked onto telescopes.

For someone with a background in astronomy and in engineering, the Dunlap Institute is a natural place to be.

Dunlap Astro Portrait #01: