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this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2024
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If the distribution of those nine satellite galaxies across the entire Milky Way is similar to what was found in the footprint captured by the HSC-SSP, the research team calculates that there actually may be closer to 500 satellite galaxies
WTF? I was thinking there were around a dozen or so.
They solved one conundrum just to find another. Too few dwarfs then too many.