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Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy Discovered

Posted by samzenpus on from the biggest-there-is dept.

littlesparkvt writes "The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the United States, Chile and Brazil has crowned it the largest-known spiral galaxy, based on archival data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission."

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  1. Quickly, get the news out by bytesex · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Before we're overshadowed by this:

    http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/224-news-2013/2212-astronomers-discover-the-largest-structure-in-the-universe

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