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Dark Energy Survey finds more Celestial Neighbors

10/17/2015

 
Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near our Milky Way galaxy. Signs indicate that they—like the objects found by the same team earlier this year—are likely dwarf satellite galaxies, the smallest and closest known form of galaxies.

Read more at
​​http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/august-2015/dark-energy-survey-finds-more-celestial-neighbors

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