13 January 2009

ALFALFA Blog!

Posted by Ryan Anderson

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If you are tired of reading about Mars and planets (I don’t know how you could be, but I suppose it could happen) then you should go check out the new blog about the ALFALFA survey, started by another group of grad students here at Cornell. They use the Arecibo radio telescope (yes, the one in Goldeneye) to look at thousands and thousands of galaxies and do science that blows my provincial solar-system oriented mind. Go check it out!