Dark Energy Survey finds more celestial neighbors

New dwarf galaxy candidates could mean our sky is more crowded than we thought. 

Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near our Milky Way galaxy. Signs indicate that they, like the objects found by the same team earlier this year, are likely dwarf satellite galaxies, the smallest and closest known form of galaxies. 

The Theoretical Cosmology group of prof. Juan García-Bellido of the IFT are full members of the International Collaboration Dark Energy Survey, together with the Spanish groups at IFAE, ICE y CIEMAT.

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