SARTEANO, ITALY University of Texas at Austin graduate student Guillermo A. Blanc is talking dissection. But he's not a biologist he's an astronomer. Blanc is using a new instrument at the university's McDonald Observatory to dissect nearby galaxies to learn how stars form, and in the process, generating a flood of new information that will benefit other scientists' work. Blanc is presenting his first results this week at an international conference called "SFR@50: Filling the Cosmos with Stars" in Sarteano, Italy.
