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| | | | I went on a bit of a twitter bender yesterday about the early claims about high mass galaxies at high redshift, which went on long enough I thought I should share it here. For those watching the astro community freak out about bright, high redshift galaxies being detected by JWST, some historical context in an... | |
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| | | | The Milky Way and its nearest giant neighbor Andromeda (M31) are surrounded by a swarm of dwarf satellite galaxies. Aside from relatively large beasties like the Large Magellanic Cloud or M32, the majority of these are the so-called dwarf spheroidals. There are several dozen examples known around each giant host, like the Fornax dwarf pictured... | |
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| | | | In the last post, I noted some of the sociological overtones underpinning attitudes about dark matter and modified gravity theories. I didn't get as far as the more scientifically interesting part, which illustrates a common form of reasoning in physics. About modified gravity theories, Bertone & Tait state "the only way these theories can be... | |
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