How Markarian 205 nearly broke the universe: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

NGC 4319 and Markarian 205 are a pair of objects with a lot of lore and history. NGC 4319 is a spiral galaxy about 77 million light-years distant, while Markarian 205 is a quasar — an extremely luminous active galaxy — about 1 billion light-years away. We know those distances thanks to measurements of theseContinue reading “How Markarian 205 nearly broke the universe: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher”
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