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Hubble took a photo of an unusual galaxy

"Хаббл" сделал фото необычной галактикиIt is in the constellation Pisces.

Scientists using the Hubble telescope image of the galaxy UGC 477, which is located at a distance 110 million light years away in the constellation Pisces.

The picture was published on the official website of NASA. UGC 477 is a galaxy of low surface brightness. For the first time the assumption of the existence of such galaxies was put forward in 1976 by Mike disney, but their existence was confirmed only in 1986 with the opening of the galaxy Malin 1.

Such galaxies are 250 times dimmer than the night sky, so they are very hard to find. A large part of the galaxies with low surface brightness is dark matter.

"Хаббл" сделал фото необычной галактики

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