The discovery of numerous
faint dwarf galaxies in Fornax suggests that the «missing satellites» are now being found.
Not exact matches
Despite having run the highest - resolution simulation to date, Wetzel continues to push forward, and he is
in the process of running an even higher - resolution, more - sophisticated simulation that will allow him to model the very
faintest dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way.
All of these worlds orbit
faint ruddy stars known as M
dwarfs, the most common type of star
in the
galaxy.
Myung Gyoon Lee and
In Sung Jang were looking for ultra
faint dwarf (UFD)
galaxies, remnants of the universe's first
galaxies.
Using the precise VLA position, researchers used the Gemini North telescope
in Hawaii to make a visible - light image that identified a
faint dwarf galaxy at the location of the bursts.
We also needed to add
in the contribution of a more abundant population of
faint dwarf galaxies,» lead author Hakim Atek, from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, said
in a statement.
«You can see bulges
in distant
galaxies, but you can not resolve the very
faint stars, such as the white
dwarfs.
RESEARCHERS HAVE SOLVED a 60 - year - old mystery regarding the origin of the heaviest elements
in nature, conveyed
in the
faint starlight from a distant
dwarf galaxy.