Questions tagged [intergalactic-space]
Questions regarding the space or objects outside of galaxies.
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Where does the Milky Way end?
I was reading this article
and it says the following:
Researchers measured the mass of the Milky Way and found that our galaxy is approximately half the weight of a neighbouring galaxy known as ...
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Do star systems stripped from galaxies have different expected behavior?
Another way of stating this question: Does the fact that a star system (or comparable concentrated mass) exists in a galaxy affect its long-term evolution, in terms of expansion, contraction, ...
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Could dark energy be negative gravity?
Main question: Could dark energy (the mysterious accelerating expansion of the universe) be explained by "negative gravity"?
"Spin off" questions:
Does antimatter have negative gravity?
If ...
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Dark Flow: statistical limits on existence
Dark Flow has been thrown around as a term a lot lately, especially with the latest Planck results.
New Scientist reported last year that it was now statistically improbable, but the paper by Atrio ...
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When we say a galaxy is 200 million light years away, does this account for the expansion of space in the time it took it's light to reach us?
When we see a distant galaxy, the light we are watching started it's journey millions of years ago. In all that time, space has been expanding, so if the initial distance was A, right now the distance ...
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Have we observed any rogue/wandering stars?
Do we know (have we observed and cataloged) any rogue star, being not part of galaxy, but drifting somewhere in inter-galactic space?
I know that determining if a star is a part of galaxy or not is a ...
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What is there in the intergalactic space?
What bodies can be encountered way outside galaxies - far beyond the farthest edges of galaxies, in the deep space between them? Are there single, galaxy-less stars, giant clouds of gas more dense ...
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