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HPR’s Dave Lawrence and Christopher Phillips hosted Stargazer on Mondays to discuss the latest developments in astronomy. Stargazer is no longer in production. The last episode aired on Oct. 16, 2023.

August 29 - September 4, 2016 Stargazer: Dragonfly Galaxy of Dark Matter

courtesy of Shawn A. Laatsch

For today’s Stargazer, we hear about a Mauna Kea summit discovery relating to dark matter, and a galaxy thought to be almost entirely made up of it, as HPR All Things Considered Host Dave Lawrence speaks with Christopher Phillips.

Credit Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Gemini Observatory/AURA.
An image on the left is from Gemini North at Mauna Kea, and offers a wide view of the galaxy utilizing their Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS). On the right a close-up reveals the mysterious galaxy, thought to be almost entirely Dark Matter.

      

Dave Lawrence is the local host of All Things Considered, Road Stories (formerly Off the Road) and Stargazer.
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