Bedin I: "The Accidentally Discovered Dwarf Galaxy" | Hubble

Bedin I: "The Accidentally Discovered Dwarf Galaxy" | Hubble

This image, taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, shows a part the globular cluster NGC 6752. Behind the bright stars of the cluster a denser collection of faint stars is visible—a previously unknown dwarf spheroidal galaxy. This galaxy, nicknamed Bedin 1, is about 30 million light-years from Earth.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble, NASA, Bedin et al.

Release Date: Jan. 31, 2019

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