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Image: The accidentally discovered galaxy Bedin I

by European Space Agency

Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Bedin et al.; CC BY 4.0
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Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Bedin et al.; CC BY 4.0

This image, taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys shows a part the globular cluster NGC 6752.

Behind the bright stars of the cluster, a denser collection of faint stars is visible—a previously unknown dwarf . This galaxy, nicknamed Bedin 1, is about 30 million light-years from Earth.

Provided by European Space Agency

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