Meet KKs3, a tiny new galaxy hiding near the Milky Way . KKs3, a tiny, isolated galaxy 7 million light years away in the southern constellation Hydrus the Lesser Water Snake. The Milky Way galaxy is one some 50 galaxies in the Local Group, a gravitationally-bound cluster of galaxies including the familiar Andromeda Galaxy on the outskirts of the much larger and grander Virgo Cluster. The new galaxy, discovered by a team of Russian-American astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope, is incredibly anemic. With just 23 million solar masses of material, it’s 1/10,000th as massive as the Milky Way.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 01:55:14 +0000
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