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Mystery of Milky Way’s Halo –“Hiding Missing Matter from Birth of the Universe” – The Daily Galaxy –Great Discoveries Channel
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is only one of a 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes, and, like all galaxies, is cloaked in a huge halo, that itself …
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is only one of a 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes, and, like all galaxies, is cloaked in a huge halo, that itself enshrouds a mystery. In 2018, HaloSat, a minisatellite designed to probe at the X-rays emitted by the Milky Way’s heated halo, the circumgalactic medium (CGM), was launched into space to search for atomic remnants of the leftover baryonic matter –believed to be missing since the universe’s birth nearly 14 billion years ago.
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