Dive deep into dark matter with Dave Eicher in the latest 'This Week in #Astronomy' episode with @astronomy.magazine as he explores the depths of dark matter. Dave looks at the works of Jan Oort and Fritz Zwicky who both came to the realization there is a large amount of dark material in the #universe through observations of galaxy clusters. https://bit.ly/3Ee3XKS | Celestron

The Coma Galaxy Cluster: Queen Berenice II’s Hair Tied Together by Dark Matter FriendsofNASA.org | Cosmoview Episode 85: The Dark Energy Camera captures an image of the dazzling Coma Cluster, named after the hair of Queen Berenice II of Egypt. Not only significant in Greek mythology, this collection of galaxies was also fundamental to the discovery of the existence of dark matter. The theory emerged in 1937 when Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky noticed that the Coma Cluster galaxies behaved as if t

Zooming into The Coma Cluster | NOIRLab-DOE Dark Energy Camera FriendsofNASA.org: The Dark Energy Camera captured an image of the dazzling Coma Cluster, named after the hair of Queen Berenice II of Egypt. Not only significant in Greek mythology, this collection of galaxies was also fundamental to the discovery of the existence of dark matter. The theory emerged in 1937 when Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky noticed that the Coma Cluster galaxies behaved as if they were under the influence of vast am