Michigan Astronomy Student Blog

Thank you for reading this blog this year. It has been an interesting experiment. As we head into spring/summer term, and all the students...

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We have come to the end of another semester, so it is time once again to ask your help! Please take a moment to evaluate this blog. We rea...

A star is a sphere of plasma that is held together by gravity. Stars come in many different shapes and sizes. The size of a...

Star Formation Stars go through many stages while forming. The stages can take anywhere between hundreds of thousands o...

A Green Pea galaxy is a galaxy that is undergoing high rates of star formation. Astronomers believe that they might be a type of Blue...

The Magellan telescopes are large custom built telescopes. They were built by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. They ar...