Scientists have found the darkest known galaxy, a treasure trove of around 1,000 ancient, small and dim stars located just outside the Milky Way. The dwarf galaxy - Segue 1 - is mostly an enormous ...

Both images of Segue 1show that the galaxy is so barren, it’s hard to classify it as one (Image Credit: MIT) There’s something fascinating about Segue 1, a galaxy first noticed in 2006 by the Sloan ...

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Sometimes big things come in small packages, or so the saying goes. Such is the case with Segue 2, the name of a tiny galaxy near our own that is being called the "most lightweight" ever discovered.

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity needed to keep itself from scattering into space. Like other dwarf galaxies, it ...

The question is a throwback to the ancient Greeks, who first came up with the notion that everything is composed of tiny atoms. Yet here we sit, still asking that question. When our telescopes survey ...