Wednesday 12 June 2013

TINIEST GALAXY FOUND

                              Recently the astronomers finds a new galaxy. It is known that the galaxy contains almost a collection of 1000 stars, these are held together with a bit of dark matter, orbiting the milky way. It is the most lightweight galaxy ever discovered. The scientist are using the world's most powerful telescope at the W M Keck observatory. The astronomers named the galaxy segue 2.The co-author James bullock said, " Finding a galaxy as tine as segue 2 is like discovering an elephant smaller than a mouse. Segue 2's presence could hint at the existence of thousands more very low mass systems."
                              astronomers are searching these types of galaxies for a long time. these time of galaxies helps us to know what is our future or what is our history. this type of galaxies, either the stage of the ruined galaxy or the beginning of the new one.

No comments:

Post a Comment