Feb 14, 2016
csirogramNot only did a team of international #astronomers use our Parkes Radio Telescope to help them find hundreds of new galaxies (in an area dubbed the Zone of Avoidance), they’ve also found that this area obscures the Great Attractor: a distant #galaxy #supercluster pulling our own #MilkyWay and other galaxies in its sphere of influence towards it at two million kilometres an hour, with the #gravitational pull equivalent to one million billion #suns.
This artist’s impression of the galaxies found in the ‘Zone of Avoidance’ behind the Milky Way was created using the actual positional #data of the new #galaxies and randomly populating the region with galaxies of different sizes, types and colours. Image credit: ICRAR #CSIRO
