What’s hiding near Andromeda?

First there was an amateur astronomer: Giuseppe Donatiello found an interesting “spot” in the Dark Energy Camera data on the 4-meter Víctor M. Blanco telescope. Then, using the larger 8.1-meter Gemini North telescope, the professionals took a closer look and confirmed that the object, then named Pegasus V, was an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy on the edge of the Andromeda Galaxy. The observations revealed that the galaxy appears to be extremely poor in heavier elements compared to similar dwarf galaxi...

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Published on June 30, 2022 16:48
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