Color me Japan

Millions of paper cranes are offered each year to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, as prayers for peace and the end of all the world's conflicts.

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I can’t believe it’s almost exactly a year ago that I signed my work contract with JAXA! It’s been a wonderful year of adventures and frustrations, a year of meeting amazing new friends, learning how to navigate life as an illiterate person, and last but not least a whole year … Continue reading

How black holes shape giant galaxies

WRITTEN BY: NORBERT WERNER NASA just published a beautiful collage of images of four giant elliptical galaxies, taken with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, from a study I published together with Aurora and several other collaborators. Giant ellipticals are the largest galaxies in the Universe. They also appear to be very old: most … Continue reading