The Skyentists
The Skyentists
Angel Lopez-Sanchez & Kirsten Banks
008 - Weird little galaxy
37 minutes Posted Apr 19, 2018 at 6:51 am.
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In this episode "The Skyentists", astronomers Kirsten Banks and Ángel López-Sánchez, talk again about galaxies and discuss the mysterious component in all of them: the dark matter. In all galaxies for sure? Very recently it has been announced that a little, faint, fuzzy, low-luminous dwarf galaxy named as NGC1052-DF2 doesn't have any dark matter! Our Skyentists talk about these news and explore what might be happening in this intriguing object. For our "What's Up!" segment we discovered that M 83 is not only a very famous nearby spiral galaxy but something else...