Comments on: Hubble Finds Densest Nearby Galaxy ../index.html Astronomy for Everyone Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:56:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Your 2013 Guide to the Top Space Discoveries of the Year ../index.html#comment-3131 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:56:41 +0000 http://www.brownspacemans.local/?p=574#comment-3131 […] This galaxy is located a mere 54 million light years away from Earth. The galaxy M60-UCD1 is SO dense (how dense is it!) that it weighs about 200 million times more than our sun. If you took all the matter within 80 light years of us it would be around that much mass (that probably didn’t help did it?). We would classify this beast as an ultra compact dwarf galaxy.   Read more here for the full story. […]

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