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In this chapter we penetrate the deep places of space. Our observations take us to far-off galaxies, including some of those in the Virgo supercluster, one of the richest areas of the night sky. We look at how resolving the strange fact of a dark sky illumined by so many stars leads to a fundamental property of the universe, its expansion. We then try to peer at the darkest thing of all, dark matter.
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Marett-Crosby, M. (2013). Into the Deep. In: Twenty-Five Astronomical Observations That Changed the World. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6800-4_21
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