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1.The Hidden Lives of Galaxies Jim Lochner, USRA & NASA/GSFC2. What is a Galaxy ? Solar System Distance from Earth to Sun =93,000,000 miles =8 light-minutes Size of Solar…

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T h e S o u t h e r n M i l k y W a y A b o v e A L M A . C r e d i t : E S O / B . T a f r e s h i ( t w a n i g h t . o r g ) The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…

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Slide 1 3C48: Evidence for two merger nuclei? Melanie Krips University of Cologne Andreas Eckart University of Cologne Roberto Neri IRAM, France Jens Zuther University of…

Slide 1 Galaxies Live in Clusters Hickson Fornax Slide 2 Coma Virgo Slide 3 Abell 2218 Slide 4 Galaxy clusters join in larger groupings, called superclusters. This is a 3-D…

Galaxies Galaxies are clouds of millions to hundreds of billions of stars held together by their mutual gravity. Often galaxies also contain enormous clouds of gas and dust…