Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University

This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools, the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins communications offices.

Galaxies Have Gotten Hotter As They’ve Gotten Older

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and other institutions have found that, on average, the temperature of galaxy clusters today is 4 million degrees Fahrenheit. That is 10 times hotter than 10 billion years ago, and four times hotter than the Sun’s outermost atmosphere called the corona. The findings are published in the Astrophysical Journal.

November 10, 2020 Tags: astronomy, astrophysics, Brice Ménard, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Planck satellite, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the universe, universe expansion
| Category: Physics and Astronomy

JHU Scientist Wins NSF Int’l Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and in the case of an image created by astrophysicist Miguel Angel Aragon of The Johns Hopkins University, the adage holds true. His vibrant computer illustration, which won the National Science Foundation’s 2011 Science and Engineering’s Visualization Challenge in the “Informational Posters and Graphics” category, brings to vivid life many dynamic aspects of the universe, spanning 240 million light years.

February 2, 2012 Tags: AAAS, Adler Planetarium, dark matter Science, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Julieta Aguilera, Mark Subbarao, Miguel Angel Aragon, National Science Foundation, The Cosmic Web, The Johns Hopkins University, The National Science Foundation;s 2011 Science and Engineering's Visualization Challenge, the universe
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy, Technology