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Feb 17, 2020 12 tweets 17 min read
In this month's A&G, read all about the growth of the field of Cosmology, from its speculative origins to the respected discipline it is today, by Malcolm Longair doi.org/10.1093/astrog… #cosmology
(Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/L Jenkins [GSFC]) an image of space, with 3 bright objects @RoyalAstroSoc @AstronGeo @OxfordJournals @astro_librarian @KICC_official Early research in #MNRAS was largely based on observational astronomy, but a great number of important advances in cosmology have since been published with us as the field has grown. We look back on some of these groundbreaking discoveries... Hubble Deep Field. A detailed image of space.
Jan 20, 2020 12 tweets 36 min read
Over the next week, we're going to be looking back at the most cited #MNRAS papers of the decade 🏆 Together they've been cited nearly 10,000 times! 🔟 The 10th most cited #MNRAS paper of the decade was: Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes by Michael Boylan-Kolchin @MBKplus et al
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#astronomy #MilkyWay Image