Tag: Observational Cosmology

Gage Siebert named 2021 Goldwater Scholar

Three University of Wisconsin–Madison students, including junior Physics and Math major Gage Siebert, have been named 2021 winners of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, considered the country’s preeminent undergraduate scholarship in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. As a freshman, Siebert studied the origins of life in Professor David Baum’s lab at the Wisconsin Institute for …

The Milky Way’s satellites help reveal link between dark matter halos and galaxy formation

This story was adapted from one originally published by Nathan Collins at SLAC. Read the original version here. Just as the sun has planets and the planets have moons, our galaxy has satellite galaxies, and some of those might have smaller satellite galaxies of their own. To wit, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a relatively …