Kaixiang Wang (Peking University), Eric Peng (NOIRLab), Raja GuhaThakurta (UC Santa Cruz) and their collaborators on the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) team will use the Keck II 10-meter telescope and Echelle Spectrograph and Imager (ESI) instrument on the summit of Maunakea on the Big Island of Hawai’i to study an unusual class of galaxies, ultra compact dwarf (UCD) galaxies, in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. The Virgo cluster, the nearest large collection of galaxies, is located at a distance of 50 million light years from us.
In this dedicated session, we are joined by students from four high schools in Colombia. Our moderator for this bilingual Spanish/English session is Jeronimo Calderon Gómez in conjunction with Juan Pablo Uchima (RECA ).