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Scientists have found hundreds of galaxies, previously hidden behind the Milky Way
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The beauty of the Milky Way hides many celestial objects. But astronomers using the updated radio telescope in the обсерватории Parkes (Australia) managed to penetrate interstellar matter our galaxy and discover previously unknown galaxy. Their accumulation as the Milky Way, is moving in the direction of the mysterious Great Attractor.
Professor Lister Stavelot-Smith [Lister Staveley-Smith], lead author, said that as a result of the research has been studied 883 galaxies, about one-third of which was opened for the first time. The study was conducted in the study of gravity anomaly, discovered in the 1980s.
This anomaly, called Великий attractor , located at a distance of about 250 million light-years away in the constellation Norma. This object with a mass of tens of thousands of mass of the Milky Way is probably a huge galactic supercluster. But his study is complicated by the fact that it is hidden from direct observation of the disk of our galaxy.
"There is no clear understanding of the nature of the gravitational acceleration and the location of its source has not yet been worked out, - the professor said. - We know that in this area there is a huge set of galaxies, which we call superclusters, and that our Milky Way is moving in this direction at a speed of more than two million kilometers per hour »
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Scientists are trying to build a map of the distribution of galaxies in the vicinity of the attractor since it opened. But only the application of modern techniques of radio astronomy enabled them to look beyond the thick layers of interstellar dust and gas. As explained by an astronomer at the University of Cape Town, Professor Rene Crane-Korteweg [Renée Kraan-Korteweg], in the middle of the galaxy contains about 100 billion stars, and the discovery of hundreds of galaxies, previously hidden behind the Milky Way is the discovery of a huge, previously unknown to the masses.
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