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Named after Dr. Vera C. Rubin, the astronomer who discovered conclusive evidence for the existence of dark matter, this ...

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Type c-D elliptical galaxies are a subtype of giant elliptical galaxies and are characterized by a large halo of stars. Article content. ... Jupiter (mag. -2.0, in Taurus – the Bull), soon to pass ...

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A view of the spiral galaxy NGC 3982, as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxies come in many different variations, but astronomers classify them into four main types: spiral, elliptical ...

A Hubble image captures a distant galaxy, HerS 020941.1+001557, whose light is magnified and bent by a foreground elliptical galaxy, SDSS J020941.27+001558.4, forming a partial Einstein ring.