Solar System's Long-Term Future Could Lie Outside Milky Way
Jun 4, 2013
Forbes - Astronomer David Sand, at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and colleague Melissa Graham, an astronomer at Las Cumbres Observatory Global Network in California, were co-authors on a recent paper detailing their work on the MENeaCS (Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey, using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) of 58 [nearby] galaxy clusters to look for intracluster supernovae. Out of 23 supernovae found, four are thought to be totally unbound to any galaxy.
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