Satellite Galaxies Reveal Information About The Milky Way S Origin
An example is the Great Magellanic Cloud (LMC), relatively visible from the southern hemisphere of our planet, which, according to recent measurements from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, brought at least six companions when it approached “from here”. The big revelation of the time is that the Milky Way may have more than 150 satellite galaxies, unlike the approximately 60 predicted so far. Researchers at the Energy Department of the National Laboratory of Accelerators – SLAC and the Dark Energy Survey relied on observations of weak galaxies around the Milky Way to optimize their estimates from dark matter halos, as well as the size and structure of galaxies ....