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Peekaboo! Tiny, Hidden Galaxy Provides a Peek into the Past
Release date: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 10:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Tucked away in a local pocket of dark matter, a late-blooming dwarf galaxy looks like it belongs in the early universe.
Like someone living apart from modern conveniences, a dwarf galaxy in the local universe looks like it belongs in another time—the early eras of galaxy evolution itself. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped confirm an example of what astronomers call an "extremely metal-poor" galaxy, which has very few of the chemical elements or "metals" that stars produce and enrich their galaxies with over time. Most intriguingly, its stars indicate that it is also one of the youngest galaxies ever detected in the local universe.
Despite the galaxy being nearly hidden behind the glare of a foreground star—leading to its nickname, Peekaboo—Hubble was able to pick out individual stars for analysis. The discovery provides the tantalizing opportunity to study a relic of the past in fine detail, like shaking hands with an ancient ancestor.
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