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Starry Bug

03 February 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA & ESA

Float­ing like a bug under a micro­scope, I Zwicky 18 is an odd-looking galaxy. Astronomers pre­vi­ously thought this pecu­liar galaxy was very young because it resem­bles galax­ies typ­i­cally found in the early uni­verse. But images from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope show older stars within the galaxy lead­ing sci­en­tists to update their ideas. They now believe I Zwicky 18 was born about the same time as the Milky Way Galaxy and the Androm­eda Galaxy.

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