Recent content by Pterosaur

Excellent! That's exactly what I was looking for - Thank you!

"...Am I missing something?" It seems so. Start with an amorphous blob of first generation stars, a lot of gas and perhaps a little dust (an "irregular" proto-galaxy?). Add some gravitationally-induced spin. Somehow, evolving that beginning mass into a highly structured, complex form like a...

Greetings all, First time poster and an absolute neophyte, please forgive my utter cluelessness in advance. So I was reading "Why does the Milky Way rotate?" (http://phys.org/news/2015-02-milky-rotate.html), and it brought to mind a question that's niggled at me every so often when my...