Peter shoots for the stars

Nuffield Intern Peter Tipping, who spent his summer working at the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute in the galaxy dynamics group of Victor Debattista is participating in the National Science and Engineering Week in London. Peter’s project involved using N-body simulations to learn about the X-shaped structure of the Milky Way’s bulge.

Further details can be found on the University’s press release

A movie showing this structure can be found at http://www.star.uclan.ac.uk/~vpd/Animations/XShape.mp4.