Astronomers find evidence of an extreme warp in the stellar disk of the Andromeda Galaxy
UCSC astronomers have obtained new evidence
of an extreme warp in the stellar disk of the Andromeda Galaxy (also known as M31),
our nearest galactic neighbor. The findings were presented at the American Astronomical
Society meeting last week in San Diego by Puragra Guhathakurta, associate professor
of astronomy and astrophysics, graduate student Philip Choi, and David Reitzel, now
at UC Irvine. (More)
