January 12, 2022
SciTech Daily covers the Local Bubble and how the expansion speed of the bubble, as well as the past and present trajectories of the young stars forming on its surface, were derived using data obtained by Gaia, a space-based observatory launched by the European Space Agency.
“This is an incredible detective story, driven by both data and theory,” says Harvard professor and Center for Astrophysics astronomer Dr. Alyssa Goodman, a study co-author and founder of glue, data visualization software that enabled the discovery. Read the article here!