Sunday 19 August 2012

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News


Hubble sees a lonely galactic island

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 12:45 PM PDT

In terms of intergalactic real estate, our solar system has a plum location as part of a big, spiral galaxy, the Milky Way. Numerous, less glamorous dwarf galaxies keep the Milky Way company. Many galaxies, however, are comparatively isolated, without close neighbors. One such example is the small galaxy known as DDO 190, snapped in a new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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