The deep, high - quality images of the Fornax Cluster core obtained with DECam were critical to the recovery of
the missing dwarf galaxies.
He suggests that
the missing dwarf galaxies could be out there but are invisible because they are made solely of dark matter.
The missing dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way have been found.
Not exact matches
Some of the
missing dwarfs may be dark
galaxies that are all but invisible, he says.
Lipnicky and Chakrabarti analyze the distribution of the classical Milky Way
dwarf galaxies that form the vast polar structure and compares it to simulations of the «
missing» or subhalo
dwarf galaxies thought to be cloaked in dark matter.
STScI / NASA press releases: Hubble Makes the First Precise Distance Measurement to an Ancient Globular Star Cluster Hubble Unmasks Ghost
Galaxies Deepest View of Space Yields Young Stars in Andromeda Halo Hubble Identifies Source of Ultraviolet Light in an Old Galaxy ESA press releases: Hubble Unmasks Ghost
Galaxies Four Unusual Views of the Andromeda Galaxy Public speaking: On the Trail of the
Missing Galaxies High - Level Science Products from Large and Treasury Programs: GO - 9453: The Age of the Andromeda Halo (126 orbits) GO - 10265: The Formation History of Andromeda (107 orbits) GO - 10816: The Formation History of Andromeda's Extended Metal - Poor Halo (128 orbits) GO - 11664 / 12666: The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury Program: Populations, Formation History and Planets (56 orbits) GO - 12549: The Formation History of the Ultra-Faint
Dwarf Galaxies (113 orbits)
The discovery of numerous faint
dwarf galaxies in Fornax suggests that the «
missing satellites» are now being found.
One long - standing astrophysical puzzle is that of so - called «
missing»
dwarf galaxies: the number of small
dwarf galaxies that we observe is far fewer than that predicted by theory.
Some astronomers believe brown
dwarfs may exist in large numbers, helping account for the so - called
missing mass» of galaxiesmatter
galaxies seem to contain that can not be accounted for by observed celestial objects.