Oodles of Faint Dwarf Galaxies in Fornax Shed Light on a Cosmological Mystery

Image of the inner 3 square degrees of the NGFS survey footprint compared with the size of the Moon. Low surface brightness dwarf galaxies are marked by red circles. Gray circles indicate previously known dwarf galaxies. The dwarf galaxies, which vastly outnumber the bright galaxies, may be the “missing satellites” predicted by cosmological simulations.

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Release date:23 de Noviembre de 2015
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