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When you picture a galaxy in your mind's eye, it's often a spiral with magnificent structure - long, swirling, milky-white arms of stars and gas.
Lowell Observatory astronomer Deidre Hunter has spent most the last 17 years methodically studying unfamiliar galaxies that you might not expect - small, diffuse galaxies: the dwarf irregulars - to learn all she can about star formation and what it can tell her and her colleagues about the birth of the first stars after the Big Bang.
In an NSF-funded project called LITTLE THINGS - for Local Irregulars That Trace Luminosity Extremes (LITTLE) and The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey (THINGS) - Hunter's team is mapping the gasses in these diffuse, enigmatic galaxies to discern the many processes of star formation.
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