Wednesday 24 December 2014

Milky Way has new neighbor, KKs3

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Milky Way has new neighbor, KKs3
Nizhny Arkhyz, Russia (UPI) Dec 23, 2014 - The Milky Way galaxy has a new cosmic neighbor - galaxy KKs3 - discovered thanks to newly collected data courtesy of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The dwarf spheroidal galaxy lies 700 million miles away and is located in the southern sky in vicinity of the constellation Hydrus. It's only the second known isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the Local Group, a collection of some 54 gal ... more


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