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Post-doctoral fellow Sukanya Chakrabarti and astronomy professor Leo Blitz have developed a method to search for satellite galaxies that are too “dark” to see, and have predicted that the Milky Way has a companion dwarf galaxy not yet discovered.
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Possible missing link discovered between young and old galaxies
January 10, 2011:
UC Berkeley astronomers Leo Blitz and Katherine Alatalo may have found the missing link between young, gas-filled, star-forming galaxies and older, gas-depleted galaxies typically characterized as “red and dead.” The scientists report that a long-known “early-type” galaxy, NGC 1266, may help explain how gas-filled galaxies rid themselves of their molecular gas.
