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The cluster of 250 stars are rotating with the Milky Way’s galactic disk, where most of the galaxy’s stars are located. But the Nyx stars are also moving toward the center of the galaxy.
Though the galaxy is over 2 million light-years away, the Hubble telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000-light-year-long stretch of the galaxy's pancake-shaped disk.
But just how many stars are there in the galaxy? Unfortunately, we can’t simply look at all the stars with telescopes and count them up. That’s because our galaxy isn’t only full of stars.
“It’s a galaxy made only out of gas — it has no visible stars,” she said. “Stars could be there, we just can’t see them.” The galaxy, known as J0613+52, is about 270 million light ...
The Milky Way’s near neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), has accreted a smattering of stars from its smaller neighbor, the Small Magellanic Cloud (LMC).