Scientists reckon one in five galaxies are hidden by cosmic dust, sparking alien hopes
dailystar.co.ukAstronomers now believe that one in five galaxies are hidden from us behind cosmic dust, meaning that there are far more observable galaxies than initially thought.This also means that we have no idea what - or who - lurks beyond the dust, until now.
The groundbreaking revelation comes after two previously invisible galaxies heavily obscured by dust, called REBELS-12-2 and REBELS-29-2, were discovered by radio telescopes in Chile's Atacama Desert.Both had been hidden from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope by the dust.Those who made the discovery now estimate that 20% of the universe's galaxies are hidden in a similar way.Researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute, which conducted the recent study published in the journal.
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