CCAPP Alumna, Andrea Albert, now currently a postdoc at SLAC National Accelerator Lab, was featured along with Alex Drlica-Wagner and Josh Frieman in a roundtable discussion on the new dwarf candidates from DES.

 

 

"...These miniature galaxies - the first discovered in a decade - shine with a mere billionth of our galaxy's brightness and each contains a million times less mass. Astronomers believe the vast majority of material in dwarf galaxies is dark matter, a mysterious substance composing about 80 percent of all matter in the universe. Dwarf galaxies have therefore emerged as prime targets for gathering potential clues about dark matter's composition..."