... Early results from the Kepler mission suggest there may be over 50 billion planets in the MilkyWay, of which 500 million would reside in the so-called habitable zone. ...
... Ferris is the author of a dozen books, among them Seeing in the Dark, The Whole Shebang, and Coming of Age in the MilkyWay, which was translated into fifteen languages and named by The New York Times as among the leading books published in the twentieth ...
... the following topics: (1) the observed properties of multi-spin galaxies at low and high redshift, including studies of the MilkyWay as a multi-spin system; (2) the structure and formation of the decoupled angular momentum components in galaxies; and (3 ...
... is the author of a dozen books, among them тАЬSeeing in the Dark,тАЭ тАЬThe Whole Shebang,тАЭ and тАЬComing of Age in the MilkyWay,тАЭ which was translated into fifteen languages and named by The New York Times as among the leading books published in the ...
... Faber and collaborators discovered ?The Great Attractor,? a localized concentration of mass toward which the MilkyWay and neighboring galaxies are being pulled, and conducted ground-breaking research on super-massive black holes in the centers of nearly ...