[ad_1] A powerful telescope hit the astronomy scene in Australia, mapping vast swathes of the universe in record time, uncovering a million new galaxies and paving the way for new universe mysteries, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. RELATED: THE …
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[ad_1] A small and mysterious galaxy 44 million light years away is finally revealing its secrets. Revealed last year to have an incredibly low amount of dark matter, the galaxy NGC 1052-DF4 presented a significant challenge to our galactic formation models. Those models still live another day. According to new …
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[ad_1] A fascinating oddity of the Universe is that shapes and patterns can be found in extremely different contexts: the Golden Spiral can be seen in the human cochlea and in the shape of a spiral galaxy; the fractal geometry of the veins echoed in the ramifications of lightning. In …
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[ad_1] For nearly a century, astronomers have understood that the Universe is in a state of expansion. Since the 1990s, they have realized that since 4 billion years ago, the rate of expansion has been accelerating. As this progresses, and the galaxy clusters and filaments of the Universe move further …
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[ad_1] The Milky Way collided and merged with many other galaxies over the course of its long life, but reconstructing its history was a tall order. A new analysis of dense star clusters orbiting the Milky Way has now given us the story of the most complete galactic merger ever. …
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[ad_1] An international team of astronomers has identified a rare class of gamma-ray emitting galaxies, known as London, lizards within the first 2,000 million years of the age of the Universe, the Spanish Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) reported on Tuesday. (It might interest you: find out …
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