Trick of Nature Allows Hubble and Keck to Find Tiny Galaxy

A team of astronomers at the University of California at Santa Barbara report that they have resolved a dwarf galaxy 6 billion light-years away. Weighing only 1/100 as much as our Milky Way Galaxy, the dwarf is much smaller than anything studied before in any detail at this distance.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news110808361.html">Trick of Nature Allows Hubble and Keck to Find Tiny Galaxy</a></p> <p>A team of astronomers at the University of California at Santa Barbara report that they have resolved a dwarf galaxy 6 billion light-years away. Weighing only 1/100 as much as our Milky Way Galaxy, the dwarf is much smaller than anything studied before in any detail at this distance.</p>