Hubble Views Galaxy Lacking Dark Matter
Thanks! Share it with your friends!
URL
Sorry, only registred users can create playlists.
Description
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took an image of a bizarre, ghostly looking galaxy called NGC 1052-DF2 that astronomers calculate to have little to no dark matter. This is the first galaxy astronomers have discovered to be so lacking in dark matter, which is thought to comprise 85% of our universe's mass.
Read the full story: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/dark-matter-goes-missing-in-oddball-galaxy
Download the release images at http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-16
Find the science paper at https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25767
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina Jackson
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12907
If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer
Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
· Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC
· Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard
· Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/
· Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/
· Google+ http://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard/posts
Read the full story: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/dark-matter-goes-missing-in-oddball-galaxy
Download the release images at http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-16
Find the science paper at https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25767
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina Jackson
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12907
If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer
Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
· Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC
· Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard
· Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/
· Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/
· Google+ http://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard/posts
Post your comment
Comments
Be the first to comment