• By Charlie Jane Anders
    Oct 15, 2009 6:00 PM 1,605
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    Dwarf Galaxy On Our Doorstep Pulsates With Fascinating Beauty

    Here's our best view ever of Barnard's Galaxy, a dwarf galaxy just 1.6 million light years away, courtesy of the European Southern Observatory's Chilean telescope. Those red bubbles are areas of intense star formation, marked by hot hydrogen. [via BadAstronomer]


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