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Article: Discovery of dwarf galaxy is big find for Macalester professor.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 14, 2009
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Byline: BILL McAULIFFE; STAFF WRITER
In some ways, discovering a new galaxy is all in a day's work for John Cannon, Macalester College assistant professor of physics and astronomy.
"We find new galaxies every day," he said. "It's actually kind of boring."
But having found a galaxy unlike all the others -- all the millions seen so far, that is -- Cannon, a team of fellow astronomers and now some Macalester students are pondering some new questions about the universe, including how the very stars are formed.
Since 2001, Cannon and his fellow researches have been examining a pinpoint of light 140 million light years from Earth that one of ...
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