October 2016
The dwarf galaxy problem
... than those of previous surveys. Figure 2b - An image showing the Andromeda galaxy. The visible dwarf galaxies are circled in red. Compared to the simulated galaxy far fewer dwarf galaxies can be seen. To ascertain whether the clouds we found were...
25 May 2020
Clashing galaxies may have triggered Solar System formation says new study
...Way by producing the most precise three-dimensional map of our galaxy to date; a feat scientists have managed by piecing together about... causing a commotion. Existing data suggests that the dwarf galaxy might have passed through the Milky Way’s disc ...
07 November 2016
Astronomers detect a trio of unusual dwarf galaxies in the voids of the cosmic web
... from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune, India, have found evidence that a trio of unusual dwarf galaxies could represent the flow of material along a filament inside a void. The system in question is UGC 3672, and...
29 January 2018
Astronomers discover a fossil of the Reionisation era
... process started to occur. One way to help understand what might have gone on in this era is the study of dwarf galaxies. Dwarf galaxies are labelled as such because they are only about one tenth the size of our...
31 January 2018
Surprise find of complex organic molecules in LMC
...’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. “Dwarf galaxies like the LMC probably retained this same youthful makeup because of their relatively low masses, which...
28 November 2018
A hidden giant found lurking close to the Milky Way
An enormous, but extremely faint dwarf galaxy hiding close to the Milky Way has been...have stripped this out too, leaving the dwarf galaxy with dark matter calculations ”much lower than that of any other dwarf satellite studied to date,” say the ...
