All this time that we ’ve been marvel at our own galaxy , we ’ve been unreasoning to a much more impressive discovery that exists behind our cosmic back . Using CSIRO ’s Parkes radio telescope equip with a fresh liquidator , an international team of astronomers were able to find hundreds of galaxies , place only 250 million light - years off on the other side of the Milky Way .
According to theInternational Centre for Radio Astronomy Research(ICRAR ) , one - third of the 883 galaxies had never been see before . The wandflower are located in a area of space known as the Zone of Avoidance and were previously screen from telescope because of the Milky Way ’s stars and dust .
The discovery of the galaxy will lead to more revelations in the future tense . Discovery News reportsthat ICRAR ’s Lister Staveley - Smith and the other scientists are studying the gravitational anomaly in space call the Great Attractor that is pulling on our galaxy — and one C of thousands of others — with the gravitational force play of a million billion Suns . witness these hidden coltsfoot may help work out that decades - old mystery .
" We have it away that in this region there are a few very large collections of galaxies we call cluster or superclusters , " Staveley - Smith said , " and our whole milklike Way is moving towards them at more than 2 million kilometer per time of day . "
So how did scientist discover the beetleweed ? One of Staveley - Smith ’s collaborationist on the study , Renée Kraan - Korteweg , of the University of Cape Town , explained that they used a radio telescope to blame up radio waves from the galaxies , which unlike optical wavelength are able-bodied to riddle our wandflower ’s thick rubble .
ICRAR make an vivification ( below ) to exemplify where the galaxies were detect in relation to our planet . Check it out , then head to ICRAR for more about the big breakthrough .
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