Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 10 a.m.
Learn about research-based advice for staying happy in your later years, from neuroscientist and author Daniel Levitin. Then, you\u2019ll learn about how a faraway star helped researchers figure out when the Milky Way was formed.
Additional resources from Daniel Levitin:
A Massive Collision Helped Us Judge the Milky Way\u2019s Age by Grant Currin
- Dating a galaxy crash. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/m-dag011520.php
- Collision helped make the Milky Way -- and now we know when. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/yu-chm011320.php
- staff, S. X. (2017, July 27). Milky Way\u2019s origins are not what they seem. Phys.Org; Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2017-07-milky.html
- Smith, V. V., Tsuji, T., Hinkle, K. H., Cunha, K., Blum, R. D., Valenti, J. A., Ridgway, S. T., Joyce, R. R., & Bernath, P. (2003). High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of the Brown Dwarf Indi Ba. The Astrophysical Journal, 599(2), L107\u2013L110. https://doi.org/10.1086/381248
- Chaplin, W. J., Serenelli, A. M., Miglio, A., Morel, T., Mackereth, J. T., Vincenzo, F., Kjeldsen, H., Basu, S., Ball, W. H., Stokholm, A., Verma, K., Mosumgaard, J. R., Silva Aguirre, V., Mazumdar, A., Ranadive, P., Antia, H. M., Lebreton, Y., Ong, J., Appourchaux, T., \u2026 Y\u0131ld\u0131z, M. (2020). Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star \u03bd Indi. Nature Astronomy. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0975-9\xa0
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.04653.pdf
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