Google's latest homepage Doodle celebrates Guillermo Haro, a Mexican astronomer who in 1959 became the first Mexican elected to the Royal Astronomical Society.
Today (March 21) would have been Haro's 105th
Google's latest homepage Doodle celebrates Guillermo Haro, a Mexican astronomer who in 1959 became the first Mexican elected to the Royal Astronomical Society.
Today (March 21) would have been Haro's 105th birthday. He gives his name (along with astronomer George Herbig) to Herbig-Haro objects, glowing arcs and splotches of light that come from baby stars creating shock waves as they blast out high-speed jets of material into surrounding gas. The relatively short-lived objects point the way to the universe's newborn stars. He also discovered bright variable stars called flare stars in the Orion constellation, which can unpredictably boost their brightnes