“Star-starved galaxies fill the cosmos”

“Star-starved galaxies fill the cosmos”

 

The galaxy of Andromeda
At roughly 2.5 million light years, Andromeda is the nearest major galaxy to our own.  It’s NOT dim. (Wikimedia Commons)

 

More advanced telescopes are allowing us to detect dim galaxies that we couldn’t see even just a few years ago.  Hundreds if not thousands of them:

 

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/star-starved-galaxies-fill-cosmos?tgt=nr

 

 


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