UC-Riverside: How Did a Satellite Galaxy of the Milky Way Come to Be?
June 12, 2024
June 12, 2024
RIVERSIDE, California, June 12 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news:
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A UC Riverside-led team of physicists offers an explanation
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Crater 2, located approximately 380,000 light years from Earth, is one of the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. Extremely cold and with slow-moving stars, Crater 2 has low surface brightness. How this galaxy originated remains unclear.
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A UC Riverside-led team of physicists offers an explanation
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Crater 2, located approximately 380,000 light years from Earth, is one of the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. Extremely cold and with slow-moving stars, Crater 2 has low surface brightness. How this galaxy originated remains unclear.
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