Re:Working with his father... (Score 1)

An international team has discovered that the giant Andromeda galaxy, the nearest to us, is surrounded by a disk of dwarf galaxies. Among researchers, an astrophysicist at Strasbourg and his son, a high school student 15 years. Neil Ibata was 15. At the end of the summer, his father, Rodrigo Ibata, who works at the Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory (CNRS / Université de Strasbourg), wanted to learn programming. The researcher, working with other scientists around the world, explores dwarf galaxies that orbit the giant galaxy Andromeda with two telescopes, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and the Keck U.S.. Observations allowed them to discover and characterize a large number of new dwarf galaxies around Andromeda. "I asked my son to program modeling the movement of these dwarf galaxies and a weekend, he discovered that it formed a disc spinning! ". This discovery made the cover of the prestigious journal Nature this week. "It is as unexpected discovery takes Rodrigo Ibata, because it was thought that dwarf galaxies were the remnants of the formation of large galaxies, including accumulation of dark matter made by dwarf galaxies. "According to the researcher, these studies question the theory of gravity or else that you think you know about dark matter. "There's something wrong, but we do not know where. ' Neil was the first surprised by these results. "I learned last year to program in Python, widely used in video games. And I did this project at the end of last summer without waiting for me that at all. "The schoolboy 15 years, keen math and physics, is S 1st International Pontonniers high school in Strasbourg. Later, he would do theoretical physics. Meanwhile, also a student at the Conservatory of Strasbourg, he worked three hours per day and love the piano hike cycle in nature.