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How the Milky Way killed off its satellites

Models suggest the Milky Way should have far more dwarf galaxies orbiting it than we see - known as the the "missing satelites" problem. New evidence suggests a powerful...
04 November 2011
ByDominic Ford.

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Models suggest the Milky Way should have far more dwarf galaxies orbiting it than we see - known as the the "missing satelites" problem. New evidence suggests a powerful blast of UV radiation my be to blame...

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“A signature of the internal reionisation of the Milky Way?”, Pierre Ocvirk and Dominique Aubert, Monthly Notices of t...

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