In the News: Astrophysicist Explores Our Turbulent Universe

November 8th 2011
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Astrophysicist Explores Our Turbulent Universe

(LiveScience, ScienceLives)

Blakesley Burkhart is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Burkhart and her advisor, Alex Lazarian also of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, study the dynamics of gasses in the interstellar medium. More often than not, this gas is highly turbulent and also influenced by magnetic fields ...