fossilesque@mander.xyz to Astronomy@mander.xyz • 10 months agoIncredible galaxy with no visible stars discovered by accidentexternal-linkmessage-square2 fedilinkarrow-up139
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minus-squareShdwdrgn@mander.xyzhexbear9·edit-210 months agoWow, that's not something I even considered could happen. It does raise an interesting question though -- how many more of these could be out there? Seems like it would require a whole-sky survey just to detect them. linkfedilink
minus-squaregrowsomethinggood ()@reddthat.comhexbear8·10 months agoArecibo radio telescope was doing something like this, until it was destroyed by a hurricane. Some info if you're interested: https://astro.cornell.edu/news/decade-long-galaxy-survey-releases-final-catalog linkfedilink
Wow, that's not something I even considered could happen. It does raise an interesting question though -- how many more of these could be out there? Seems like it would require a whole-sky survey just to detect them.
Arecibo radio telescope was doing something like this, until it was destroyed by a hurricane.
Some info if you're interested: https://astro.cornell.edu/news/decade-long-galaxy-survey-releases-final-catalog