Hubble telescope helps discover a nearly invisible galaxy in rare image

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Hubble taking a deep space field image amid the Perseus galaxy cluster

Astronomers have spotted something that barely glows yet holds a tight group of star clusters together, pointing to a hidden galaxy that almost vanishes into the background of space.

The discovery began with four lonely globular clusters — dense balls of stars — sitting unusually close to each other in the Perseus galaxy cluster, 300 million light-years away. Normally, these clusters orbit inside galaxies. Alone, they drift apart over time. Instead, this group stayed tight...

Source: https://mashable.com/article/hubble-telescope-dark-matter-galaxy-discovery-image

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