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#Bestof2022: 1/2: Dwarf Galaxy Leo P and a window on the early cosmos. Ken Croswell, astronomer and author. (Originally posted June 13, 2021)

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🗓️ 21 March 2023

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#Bestof2022: 1/2: Dwarf Galaxy Leo P and a window on the early cosmos. Ken Croswell, astronomer and author. (Originally posted June 13, 2021)

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2204371119

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0:35.4

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:38.2

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0:41.1

Galaxies, the galaxy we live in the Milky Way is marvelous and every time you look up at this

0:47.2

night sky you consider how lucky we are to be here.

0:51.1

However, in learning about our galaxy that takes us to learning about other galaxies and

0:56.7

all the way back to the beginning when galaxies were first born 13.8 billion years ago minus

1:03.4

several hundred million.

1:04.8

I welcome Ken Croswell, writing most recently at PNAS about a galaxy that isn't one of

1:12.6

the originals, but resembles what astronomers believe can among them, author of Alchemy

1:19.0

of the Heavens.

1:20.6

Believes was the model of the early galaxies, the earliest to form.

1:27.7

Gas-heavy galaxies and metal pour can correct me.

1:32.5

I say only what I've learned from you.

1:35.1

They've discovered a galaxy near at hand, merely 5.3 million light years from the Milky Way,

1:41.8

called a dwarf galaxy named Leo P. But it's a revelation about the early cosmos.

1:48.2

I could even to Ken.

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