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La animación del enlace de abajo muestra la distribución de galaxias y estrellas de DES después del primer año de observaciones.
Los excesos de estrellas en el mapa de DES se deben principalmente al disco de la Vía Láctea y a las Nubes de Magallanes. Para hacer análisis cosmológicos, sin embargo, se usan más que todo galaxias. Por lo tanto, se quieren evitar aquéllas regiones de sobre-densidad estelar. #MLDES -- Translated by Andrés Plazas (JPL/Caltech) ... See MoreSee Less

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Take a look at the stars & galaxies of DES 1st year of observations. The excess of stars at DES footprint limits come from Milk-Way disk and Magellanic Clouds. For its cosmological analysis, DES is ma...

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Schaut euch an wie Sterne und Galaxien auf dem Himmel in den DES Daten des ersten Beobachtungsjahres verteilt sind. Der Überschuss an Sternen an den Rändern des beobachteten Gebiets wird von der Milchstrasse und den Magellanischen Wolken verursacht.

Für die kosmologische Analyse und Interpretation der Daten, DES ist hauptsächlich an Informationen über die fernen Galaxien interessiert, wird daher versucht die von Sternen dominierten Regionen zu meiden. #MLDES -- Translated by Claudio Bruderer (ETH Zürich) ... See MoreSee Less

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Take a look at the stars & galaxies of DES 1st year of observations. The excess of stars at DES footprint limits come from Milk-Way disk and Magellanic Clouds. For its cosmological analysis, DES is ma...

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Las estrellas enanas de tipo M son las más livianas. Aún así, ¡pueden llegar a tener un peso equivalente al de 24 billones de billones de elefantes, 2100 millones de billones de cruceros o 26 mil Tierras! #DarkBites #MLDES -- Translated by Andrés Plazas (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology - Caltech) ... See MoreSee Less

M-dwarfs are the least massive stars, but still weigh as much as 24 trillion trillion elephants, 2.1 billion trillion cruise ships, or 26 thousand Earths! #DarkBites www.darkenergysurvey.org/ed...

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Rote Zwerge sind die leichtesten Sterne, aber dennoch sind sie so schwer wie 24 Quadrillionen Elefanten, 2.1 Tilliarden Kreuzfahrtsschiffe, oder 26 Tausend Erden.
#DarkBites www.darkenergysurvey.org/education/darkbites/ #MLDES -- Translated by Claudio Bruderer (ETH Zürich) ... See MoreSee Less

M-dwarfs are the least massive stars, but still weigh as much as 24 trillion trillion elephants, 2.1 billion trillion cruise ships, or 26 thousand Earths! #DarkBites www.darkenergysurvey.org/ed...

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This week's DEScientist studied galaxy formation during his PhD and now studies smart meter data to detect anomalous electricity usage. Learn more about him: www.darkenergysurvey.org/scientistoftheweek/james-etherington/ ... See MoreSee Less

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29 unreal images from a man who’s spent 29 years inside a legendary physics lab

September 7, 2016 12:00 am

Seven years into his career as a newspaper photographer, Reidar Hahn had grown tired of hustling at all hours of … Read more »

Our galactic neighborhood

August 30, 2016 12:00 am

Imagine a mansion. Now picture that mansion at the heart of a neighborhood that stretches irregularly around it, featuring other houses of different sizes—but all considerably smaller. Cloak the neighborhood in darkness, and the houses appear as clusters of lights. Many of the clusters are bright and easy to see from the mansion, but some can just barely be distinguished from the darkness.

The Search for Planet Nine: New Finds Boost Case for Distant World

August 29, 2016 12:00 am

The case for Planet Nine's existence keeps getting stronger. Astronomers have discovered several more objects in the extreme outer solar system whose orbital characteristics hint at the existence of an unseen "perturber" in the dark depths far from the sun — a hypothetical world larger than Earth that scientists are calling Planet Nine, or Planet X.

Hunt for ninth planet reveals new extremely distant solar system objects

August 29, 2016 12:00 am

In the race to discover a proposed ninth planet in our Solar System, Carnegie’s Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of Northern Arizona University have observed several never-before-seen objects at extreme distances from the Sun in our Solar System. Sheppard and Trujillo have now submitted their latest discoveries to the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center for official designations. A paper about the discoveries has also been accepted to The Astronomical Journal.

MACHOs may be out of the running as a dark matter candidate

August 16, 2016 12:00 am

A recently discovered ultra-faint dwarf galaxy is sending astronomers clues about the makeup of dark matter in the neighborhood of the Milky Way. It is one more clue that a type of stellar object called massive compact halo objects (MACHOs) are probably not the dominant component of dark matter in the universe.

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