January 12, 2022
The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars — but how did those stars form?
Nadia Whitehead of the Harvard Gazette interviews Dr. Alyssa Goodman about the Local Bubble and the software that made the research possible. “We can piece together the history of star formation around us using a wide variety of independent clues: supernova models, stellar motions and exquisite new 3D maps of the material surrounding the Local Bubble.” Read the full article here!