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Cosmologists Find Eleven Runaway Galaxies

An anonymous reader writes: Discovery News reports that 11 homeless galaxies have been identified by Igor Chilingarian, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Moscow State University, and his fellow astronomers. "The 11 runaway galaxies were found by chance while Chilingarian and co-investigator Ivan Zolotukhin, of the L'Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie and Moscow State University, were scouring publicly-available data (via the Virtual Observatory) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the GALEX satellite for compact elliptical galaxies."

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  1. Re:Homeless galaxies by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess the government needs to do something about this

    The rich clusters are getting richer, hogging all the hydrogen gas. Trickle-down hydrogen is not working.