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...study published in July by a Harvard-Smithsonian Center postdoctoral student has uncovered important clues about the disputed explanation for dwarf galaxies beyond the gravitational effects of the Local Group, a group of more than twenty galaxies including the Milky...
...study, entitled ‘Resonant stripping as the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies,’ Elena D’Onghia explained the existence of dwarf galaxies on the outskirts of the Local Group, and found that slightly lower mass galaxies seemed to rotate around slightly larger galaxies which in turn stripped the smaller galaxies of their luminous matter. She coined this process “resonant stripping...
These “ultra-faint” dwarf galaxies, which lack stars and gas and are mainly composed of dark matter, were previously thought to be accredit only by galaxy-galaxy harassment, in which one large galaxy such as the Milky Way stripped a much smaller galaxy of its luminous matter...
...widely renowned, I know, as an evil, profligate dwarf." - Poking fun at his reputation and his 5-ft., 5-in. height in his autobiography, Roman...
...love at first sight ...the connection is there,” said the pet owner, commenting on her first encounter with Merf, a Siberian Dwarf hamster she acquired as a result of “feeling lonely” during her stint in dorm crew earlier this summer...