M60-UCD1: Densest Galaxy Ever Discovered

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 09:40 in Astronomy & Space

If you began to travel to the star nearest to us after ol' Sol, named Alpha Centauri, after going for four light years you will still only be half way.  It's a boring journey in that sense. Now imagine there were instead 10,000 stars crammed into that space rather than none - that's the density of a galaxy that was recently discovered. read more

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