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...study published in July by a Harvard-Smithsonian Center postdoctoral student has uncovered important clues about the disputed explanation for dwarf galaxies beyond the gravitational effects of the Local Group, a group of more than twenty galaxies including the Milky...
...study, entitled ‘Resonant stripping as the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies,’ Elena D’Onghia explained the existence of dwarf galaxies on the outskirts of the Local Group, and found that slightly lower mass galaxies seemed to rotate around slightly larger galaxies which in turn stripped the smaller galaxies of their luminous matter. She coined this process “resonant stripping...
During either type of declared emergency, a local public health authority . . . may exercise authority...
...APEC) summit in Singapore in November was high until the Indonesian press got wind of his decision to reschedule the trip until sometime next year. "Many people will be disappointed but I think they understand that he has a lot on his plate back home," says Dennis Korompis, a local businessman and old family friend of the Obamas...
...Still, most Central Asia watchers doubt the capabilities of militants there, whether connected to al-Qaeda or devoted to more local struggles. Both Moscow and Beijing have wielded their influence among Central Asia's authoritarian governments to ensure that radical strains of political Islam get largely quashed. Uighur dissidents in exile have also repeatedly rejected any connection with terrorist activity and argue that, despite a few incidents of bombings and attacks in China, China exploits the specter of a terrorist threat to further repress Uighur rights. Al-Qaeda's recent statement does their cause few favors. "China could...