'Ghost' Dwarf Galaxy Found Hiding at the Edge of the Milky Way

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By Chelsea Gohd
Nov 13, 2018 10:35 PMMay 17, 2019 8:39 PM
The Ant 2 ghost galaxy is a massive, dim dwarf galaxy that scientists have discovered near the edge of the Milky Way
The Ant 2 "ghost" galaxy is a large, dim dwarf galaxy that scientists have discovered near the edge of the Milky Way. While low in mass, Ant 2 is about the same size as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). (Credit: V. Belokurov and A. Smith (Cambridge, UK and CCA, New York, US) based on the images by Marcus and Gail Davies and Robert Gendler)

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An international team of astronomers can’t fully explain the “ghost” galaxy that they discovered about 425,000 light-years away from Earth.

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