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Galaxy Dwingeloo 1 Emerges
Explanation: Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. But if you look closely at the center of the above photograph , you will see a whole spiral galaxy behind the field of stars. Named Dwingeloo 1 , this nearby galaxy was only discovered recently (1994) because much of its light was obscured by dust , gas and bright stars of our own Milky Way Galaxy . In fact, all the individually discernible stars in the above photograph are in our Galaxy . Dwingeloo 1 turned out to be a large galaxy located only five times as distant as the closest major galaxy - M31 .
| Date | January 9, 2000 |
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| Credit | Credit: S. Hughes & S. Maddox ( IoA, Cambridge ) et al., Isaac Newton Telescope |
| Authors & editors: | Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) |
| A service of: |
ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U. |