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Newberg

[ noo-burg, nyoo- ]

noun

  1. a town in NW Oregon.


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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Heidi Jo Newberg, Ph.D., professor of astronomy; Tom Donlon, Ph.D., a visiting researcher at Rensselaer and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alabama; and their team have recently published research that reveals a shocking discovery about the history of our universe: the Milky Way Galaxy's last major collision occurred billions of years later than previously thought.

Newberg, a renowned astrophysicist and Milky Way expert, and Donlon focused on the so-called "wrinkles" in our galaxy, which are formed when other galaxies collide with the Milky Way.

"For the wrinkles of stars to be as obvious as they appear in Gaia data, they must have joined us no less than three billion years ago -- at least five billion years later than was previously thought," said Newberg, Donlon's thesis adviser at Rensselaer.

Rather, Newberg and Donlon's findings indicate that the stars may have resulted from the Virgo Radial Merger, which crashed through the center of the Milky Way less than three billion years ago.

"Through this study, Doctors Newberg and Donlon have made a startling discovery about the history of the Milky Way galaxy," said Curt Breneman, Ph.D., dean of the School of Science.

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