Hundreds of Galaxies Found Hiding Behind Milky Way
Feb 9, 2016 01:06 PM ET // by Ian O’Neill – Discovery.com
Our Milky Way may be beautiful, but it sure can ruin our view of the cosmos.
Now, astronomers have just taken a peek behind the mess of stars and dust to find a veritable galactic zoo in a previously unexplored region of space. But we’re not talking about just one or two galaxies; researchers have applied a new survey technique using the Australia-based Parkes radio telescope to find hundreds of undiscovered galaxies.
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“The Milky Way is very beautiful of course and it’s very interesting to study our own galaxy but it completely blocks out the view of the more distant galaxies behind it,” said Lister Staveley-Smith, of The University of Western Australia and International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR). read more here
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