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The Hardest Bias in Astronomy


f bias called Malmquist bias affects almost every astronomical survey, and the only solution is to...keep doing surveys. Back in the 1970's and 80's astronomers first began to identify a structure known as the Great Attractor, which is defined by the common motion of all the galaxies in our nearby vicinity of the cosmos.

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