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Hubble Views a Galaxy Lacking Dark Matter

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      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.
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        March 28, 2018
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        Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy
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        NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and K. Jackson (USRA); Music: "Reborn" by Maksim Tyutmanov [PRS] and Victoria Beits [PRS]; Atmosphere Music Ltd PRS; Score Addiction; Killer Tracks Production Music

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      Hubble Views ‘Ghostly’ Galaxy Lacking Dark Matter This large, fuzzy-looking galaxy is so diffuse that astronomers call it a “see-through” galaxy because they can clearly see distant galaxies behind it. The ghostly object, catalogued as NGC 1052-DF2, doesn’t have a noticeable...

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      NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
      Greenbelt, Maryland
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