12.1.06

Slashdot | New Galactic Neighbor

Slashdot | New Galactic Neighbor: "Dan Yocum writes 'The Sloan Digital Sky Survey reveals a new Milky Way neighbor: a galaxy so big we couldn't see it before. A huge but very faint structure, containing hundreds of thousands of stars spread over an area nearly 5,000 times the size of a full moon, has been discovered and mapped by astronomers of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.'"