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Object 131: Get To Know Your Ultrafaint Neighbors

19.8.2024

George's Random Astronomical Object

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Hydrus I is a very small, ultrafaint dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way that was accidentally (or, to use the technical term, serendipitously) found by the Dark Energy Survey.

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Object 131: Get To Know Your Ultrafaint Neighbors

George's Random Astronomical Object

Weitere Episoden von „George's Random Astronomical Object“

Object 165: A Hole in the Clouds

Object 164: Not Just Any Quasar But The Quasar

Object 163: Ludricous Rotation

Object 162: Slightly More Interesting Than a Medieval Anglo-Gallic Coin

Object 161: More Subclassifications

Object 160: A Spiral Galaxy Using a Non-Standard Font

Object 159: That One Very Famous Double Star

Object 158: Dark Burst

Object 157: Something More Interesting than Three Exoplanets

Object 156: Dust Puffs