Original upload date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:04:51 GMT
The Hubble Space Telescope discovered a new nearby galaxy while searching for white dwarf stars in a nearby globular cluster. The new galaxy, called Bedin I, was spotted hiding behind the globular clu
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ster NGC 6752. This new galaxy is tiny, only 3000 light years wide, and classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy. These dwarf galaxies are the building blocks of much larger galaxies like our Milky Way, so studying them tells us a lot of about how the universe formed and evolved over time.
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Bedin, et al (2019): https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00271
Press Release: https://spacetelescope.org/news/heic1903/
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