
Detail and realism in equal measures are what Puragra Guhathakurta likes to reflect in his in both his research projects and his artistic creations. An amateur portraitist, this professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California has worked at Lick Observatory since 1985, the year in which he emigrated from his native India to the United States. He considers the Andromeda galaxy to be an ideal cosmological laboratory for studying what most interests him as an astrophysicist: galaxy interactions, stellar clusters and hierarchical formation processes. - Following the
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