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May 27, 2014

Failed dwarf galaxy survives galactic collision thanks to full dark-matter jacket
Charlotteville VA (SPX) May 27, 2014
Like a bullet wrapped in a full metal jacket, a high-velocity hydrogen cloud hurtling toward the Milky Way appears to be encased in a shell of dark matter, according to a new analysis of data from the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Astronomers believe that without this protective shell, the high-velocity cloud (HVC) known as the Smith Cloud would have disintegrated long ago when it first collided with the disk of our Galaxy. If confirmed by further observa ... read more

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