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The discovery of NGC 7318b smashing through Stephan's Quintet was observed by a team of more than 60 astronomers and has been published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The nature of dark matter has eluded astronomers for 90 years, since the realization that 85% of the matter in the universe is not visible through our telescopes.

Indeed, Jefferson deemed the African-American poet Phillis Wheatley’s work “beneath the dignity of criticism” and asserted that Black astronomer Benjamin Banneker possessed only “a mind of very common stature.”

As satellites whiz past the field of view of telescopes, they leave streaks in the astronomers’ images.

It was discovered last year by astronomers in China and South Africa as it approached the inner solar system, and after this visit, it won’t be seen again for 80,000 years, according to NASA.