Adding up Stars in a Galaxy
NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory combined data making this diagram illustratrating the extent to which astronomers have been underestimating the proportion of small to big stars in certain galaxies.
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PIA12174
Date Created
August 19, 2009
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JPL
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