Hubble Spots 'Loneliest' Galaxy In The Universe
- 8 years ago
The Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys recently returned an image of the lonely galaxy MCG+01-02-015.
An admittedly "unsentimental" name, the galaxy known as MCG+01-02-015 is focused in the foreground of an image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Surrounded by dim and bright dots amidst the cosmic dark, the somewhat antiseptically-named galaxy only appears to have a wealth of neighbors.
But those dots—all other galaxies—and the three visible stars, marked in their Bethlehem-like appearance by diffraction spikes, are nowhere close.
In reality, according to NASA, "It is a void galaxy, the loneliest of galaxies."
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An admittedly "unsentimental" name, the galaxy known as MCG+01-02-015 is focused in the foreground of an image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Surrounded by dim and bright dots amidst the cosmic dark, the somewhat antiseptically-named galaxy only appears to have a wealth of neighbors.
But those dots—all other galaxies—and the three visible stars, marked in their Bethlehem-like appearance by diffraction spikes, are nowhere close.
In reality, according to NASA, "It is a void galaxy, the loneliest of galaxies."
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