Great attractor
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Author: Dr. Alan Dressler, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
on Amazon.Dr. Alan Dressler accepted the invitation on 17 September 2007 (self-imposed deadline: 17 March 2008).
This article will briefly cover: The challenge of measuring the distances to galaxies. The goal of mapping the mass distribution in the local universe and comjparing it with the light distribution. The discovery of the Great Attractor, other large-scale "flows," and their implications for models of structure formation such as cold-dark-matter.
| Invited by: | Dr. Bo Milvang-Jensen, Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
