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Incredible galaxy with no visible stars discovered by accident
(studyfinds.org)
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this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2024
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Wow, that's not something I even considered could happen. It does raise an interesting question though -- how many more of these could be out there? Seems like it would require a whole-sky survey just to detect them.
Arecibo radio telescope was doing something like this, until it was destroyed by a hurricane.
Some info if you're interested: https://astro.cornell.edu/news/decade-long-galaxy-survey-releases-final-catalog
The fact that we're not willing to pay the relative pittance (compared to lots of other shit in the Federal budget) to rebuild Arecibo is criminal.