Pioneering a new technique, researchers have peered into the extremely faint light that exists between galaxies to describe the history and state of orphan stars. An international team of astronomers have turned a new technique onto a group of galaxies and the faint light between them — known as ‘intra-group light’ — to characterise the stars that dwell there.
Lead author of the study published in MNRAS, Dr Cristina MartÃnez-Lombilla from the School of Physics at UNSW Science, said “We know almost nothing about intra-group light.
“The brightest parts of the intra-group light are ~50 times fainter than the darkest night sky on Earth...
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